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In this unique ghost story set on the beautiful Peruvian coastline, a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions. Miguel (Cristian Mercado), a handsome, young and beloved fisherman, and his beautiful bride, Mariela (Tatiana Astengo), are about to welcome their first child. But Miguel harbors a scandalous secret. He's in love with Santiago (Manolo Cardona), a painter who is ostracized by the town because he's both agnostic and gay. When Santiago drowns accidentally in the ocean's strong undertow, he cannot pass peacefully to the other side. He returns after his death to ask Miguel to look for his body and bury it according to the rituals of the town. Miguel must choose between sentencing Santiago to eternal torment or doing right by him and, in turn, revealing their relationship to Mariela--and the entire village.
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It makes sense to tap David Gordon Green for a swampland thriller. His trademark eerie pacing, pans stretched out like molasses and silences that span whole oceans are perfect treatments for a story with the drawn-out tensions of murder, pursuit and fear. Yet Green's strengths--largely his fixations with setting and mood and shot--are ultimately his greatest weaknesses. Whereas Undertow should be a story about the complexities of terror and hatred and love and family blood, instead it is no story at all, but a degenerating series of weak forays into interesting scenery, the plot trailing thinly behind the film like a diminishing fume.
Set to an oppressively stringy Phillip Glass score,
Undertow jerks and stalls through a humid tin roof Savannah landscape, depressing from the outset and resoundingly bereft of hope. We are introduced to our antiheroic depressing Southern family, the Munns, who toil and scrape and vomit and live oh-so-earnestly, poised as the perfect and yet somehow unlovable victims we know they are destined to become. Mulroney is egregiously miscast as father John, too stilted and ineffectual in a role that sorely needed fleshing out.
Jamie Bell is fine as the naïve, afflicted protagonist caught in the age between innocence and slow, resigned realization of his doom, but without the strength of a pointed plot to drive him, Bell's performance sinks along with the rest of the ship. (Though Bell and Devon Allen, as younger brother Tim, do manage to shine through Green's uncanny child's-eye vision on a number of fleeting occasions.) Josh Lucas as evil brother Deel is caricatured, and the women, who barely exist, are wide-eyed parodies of Zooey Deschanel's fabulous character in All the Real Girls. (Hint to Green: not all women are sweet-faced tough girls who want to have "a million babies".)
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It makes sense to tap David Gordon Green for a swampland thriller. His trademark eerie pacing, pans stretched out like molasses and silences that span whole oceans are perfect treatments for a story with the drawn-out tensions of murder, pursuit and fear. Yet Green's strengths--largely his fixations with setting and mood and shot--are ultimately his greatest weaknesses. Whereas Undertow should be a story about the complexities of terror and hatred and love and family blood, instead it is no story at all, but a degenerating series of weak forays into interesting scenery, the plot trailing thinly behind the film like a diminishing fume.
Set to an oppressively stringy Phillip Glass score,
Undertow jerks and stalls through a humid tin roof Savannah landscape, depressing from the outset and resoundingly bereft of hope. We are introduced to our antiheroic depressing Southern family, the Munns, who toil and scrape and vomit and live oh-so-earnestly, poised as the perfect and yet somehow unlovable victims we know they are destined to become. Mulroney is egregiously miscast as father John, too stilted and ineffectual in a role that sorely needed fleshing out.
Jamie Bell is fine as the naïve, afflicted protagonist caught in the age between innocence and slow, resigned realization of his doom, but without the strength of a pointed plot to drive him, Bell's performance sinks along with the rest of the ship. (Though Bell and Devon Allen, as younger brother Tim, do manage to shine through Green's uncanny child's-eye vision on a number of fleeting occasions.) Josh Lucas as evil brother Deel is caricatured, and the women, who barely exist, are wide-eyed parodies of Zooey Deschanel's fabulous character in All the Real Girls. (Hint to Green: not all women are sweet-faced tough girls who want to have "a million babies".)
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