Borgman

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Borgman

2014

1h 53m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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2,500+ Ratings

A vagrant turns the lives of arrogant upper-class people to a psychological nightmare.

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Borgman's unpredictability may confound as many viewers as it enthralls, but either way, it's a refreshingly original experiment in off-kilter terror.

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Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

What Marina sees in Borgman is one of the countless implausibilities that make the film more annoying than disturbing.

Rated: 1/4

Jul 17, 2014

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

The black humour and perversity can occasionally startle, but the film takes far too much sadistic delight in punishing these entitled dopes.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jul 11, 2014

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

A creepily comical story about an insistent vagrant turned insidious home occupier.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 3, 2014

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

A strikingly composed parable of surprising humor and crafty wit.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 30, 2019

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Hanna B

Film Threat

[It] can easily captivate the right viewers and have others in complete disdain over its restrained attitude. In addition, it exhibits the sort of twisted humor about people mechanically performing disturbing abhorrent acts...

Aug 6, 2019

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Paul Freitag-Fey

Daily Grindhouse

A film for a pretty specific taste and an openness to being perplexed.

Aug 5, 2019

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Diana S

Eerie and disturbing. It starts off one way and goes a completely other, and it feels like a train bound for a crash but you can't get off.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/21/23

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Craig M

There is no better film exploration of bourgeois self-hatred, and how it opens the door to evil of every kind.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/29/23

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Tyler B

It's the kind of film that keeps you guessing even after you've finished it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/04/23

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Tony F

Aimless story, a bit interesting at times but mostly boring.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/28/23

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Jay P

Nonsense. It could have been better if I would have written it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/26/22

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Audience Member

The language barrier made it difficult to get into but the premise it laid out was easy enough to follow and understand for awhile. Then it started twisting and turning a bit and it became less easy to follow with having to read the subtitles. Still, the build-up to the conclusion is decent and...the conclusion itself justifies the means. Very diabolical but it lacks an overall sense of reason, thought I think it's meant to be a about a cult and it's origins but that's not entirely clear nor is it clear what kind of cult they are.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Synopsis

A vagrant turns the lives of arrogant upper-class people to a psychological nightmare.

Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Producer: Mogens Glad, Eurydice Gysel, Koen Mortier, Tine Mosegaard, Marc van Warmerdam
Screenwriter: Alex van Warmerdam
Distributor: Drafthouse Films
Production Co: Graniet Film BV, Epidemic Films, Mollywood, Angel Films, NTR
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: Dutch
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 6, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $56.5K
Runtime: 1h 53m

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