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GreenCine Daily - Philippe Garrel’s Competition entry, Frontier of Dawn, is “a story of amour gone so fou that the natural world becomes subject to the supernatural. Hands down the most accessible Garrel film I’ve seen, it’s still a strange, swoony, genre-bending challenge,” writes Karina Longworth at the SpoutBlog.
Following a compare-n-contrast with James Gray’s Two Lovers, she adds, “There are shots in this film’s second half that are scarier than anything I’ve seen in a horror film in recent years… and simultaneously, incredibly moving in their invocation of a love that won’t die. Or, at the very least, refuses to abide by traditional boundaries of love and death.”
“Frontier of Dawn - the 28th feature by traditionalist director Philippe Garrel - met with tumultuous applause and whistles following its competition screening,” reports Fabien Lemercier for Cineuropa. “Lauded on several occasions at the Venice Film Festival, the 60-year-old filmmaker is in official competition at Cannes for the first time, with a work characteristic of an oeuvre that could be described as timeless and anachronistic, or even suggestive and ephemeral, depending on one’s point of view.”… [Full Story]
