The Divide (2012)
Directed by Xavier Gens
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
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Si alguna vez vieron The Divide (2012) sabrán de lo que estoy hablando: se puede lograr mucho con un corto presupuesto, el encierro en un bunker y la paranoia de un apocalipsis incierto.
He did as much with his previous films - the Hollywood shoot-em-up “Hitman’’ and a grisly but not stupid French cannibalism slog called “Frontier(s).’’
A surprisingly existential and cosmopolitan post-apocalyptic thriller, “The Divide” is an English-language variation of “The Road” from French splatter-meister Xavier Gens (“Frontiers,” “Hitman”).
The filmmakers, including director Xavier Gens who directed the 70s-horror-movie-sampler-platter "Frontier(s)" and the schlocky Hollywood action movie "Hitman," are clearly going for the vibe of a Stephen King tale, something along the lines of "The Stand" or "Under the Dome," with the extremity of the human condition brought to the forefront.
Written by Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean and directed by Xavier Gens, who earned a place for himself in the New French Extreme movement with his 2007 Frontier(s) before heading to Hollywood to make Hitman, The Divide is a stylish and would-be shocking variation on a familiar scenario, in which the horrors isolated survivors inflict on each other turn out to be worse than those lurking outside.
In this bleak, survival-of-the-fittest thriller from Xavier Gens (Frontier(s), Hitman the end is nigh for the human race, only it's not a deadly disease, alien invasion or natural disaster that threatens our existence: it's that old Cold War staple of nuclear annihilation.
If you’ve ever wanted to see the origin story of “Faceless Raider #152” from the Fallout video game series, have I got a movie for you: The Divide, a post-apocalyptic thriller from Xavier Gens, the director of Hitman.