Beyond Borders

 Beyond Borders 2003

• Director: Martin Campbell
• Seen by this director: Casino Royale, Golden Eye, Homicide Life on the Street 2 episodes
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Clive Owen, Angelina Jolie, Linus Roache
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Clive Owen – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Extras, Elizabeth the Golden Age, Children of Man, Derailed, Closer, Gosford Park, Croupier
• Angelina Jolie – The Tourist, Changeling, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Girl Interrupted
• Linus Roache– Yonkers Joe, Batman Begins, Seaforth
• Why?  Good cast.
• Seen: 20 February 2022 

Nick (Owen) is a doctor who goes from one refugee camp to another in desperate attempts to save lives. In one of these in Ethiopia he meets wealthy socialite Sarah (Jolie) who has come to the camp with all her savings invested in food. At first, he regards her as a flighty ignorant socialite but though she returns to her husband (Roache) in England she starts working for the UNHCR. Nick and Sarah’s paths meet throughout the years and they have a passionate love affair.

      It gives a grim and in many ways no doubt accurate picture of the danger and despair of relief worker and refugee camps. It’s a grim and dramatic film. Owens and Jolie are very good.

A little Doctor Zhivago-y at the end but strong, nevertheless. 

4* of 5