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Beyond Borders [2003]
from Pathe Distribution
starring Clive Owen, Angelina Jolie, Linus Roache, Teri Polo, Noah Emmerich
directed by Martin Campbell

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• The real humanitarian disaster is that this film was ever released
  No expense seems to have been spared to film around the world in exotic - if faux - locations (Namibia for Ethiopia, Thailand for Cambodia, Canada - less exotically - for the Caucasas and - totally implausibly - for the UK) which were then brilliantly enhanced by computer technology. The director claims that he aspired to making a film like 'Doctor Zhivago' - a love story set against a wider panorama of spectacular world events. This film fails miserably on both counts.
  The supposed attraction between... more info

• Only the land mine clicks
  BEYOND BORDERS is the perfect example of a film made to satisfy someone's agenda of political correctness, and the entertainment factor is a thin veneer slopped-on to sell tickets.

  The film opens in London at a gala charity benefit to honor the founder of an international aid organization. During all the back slapping and ego massaging, the event is crashed by Dr. Nick Callahan (Clive Owen), the physician-director of a camp for starving refugees in Ethiopia, with a young survivor in tow. Nick angrily... more info

• It is hard to have a romance when people are suffering
  When there have been dozens of movies made about the Holocaust you can get to the point where you can tell the story of a romance set against such horrors as Robert Benigni did in "La Vita è bella. But when you are first showing a world of horror like that in the movies you cannot try and tell a romance against such a backdrop. More to the point, you should not try, and that is the fatal flaw with "Beyond Borders," which will constitute many viewers introductions to the major disasters and wars... more info

• Very moving
  I loved the poignancy of this film. It is beautiful, shocking, informative and very sad (be warned!). If you liked The English Patient or Dr Zhivago, you'll surely like this. The romance between the two lead characters is somewhat predictable and Angelina Jolie's perfect looks in all scenes a little disbelievable, but that's Hollywood for you. Those minor points aside, this is a must-watch film to open your eyes and tug on your heart-strings. Once seen, you'll find it hard to shake out of your head.

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