Undertow

Aroview: Southern Gothic melodrama from dir. Green (GEORGE WASHINGTON) who here applies his off-centre visual tics to a story of family inheritances, teenage hijinks and miasmic swampland moodiness.

A widower (Mulroney) tends his pig farm with the help of his two teenage sons, but the release of a malevolent brother from prison (Lucas) leads with fairy-tale logic to a nightmarish journey across a decrepit junkyard landscape of rural Georgia. Although Green's cinematic mannerisms have divided audiences, this is perhaps more effective for its driving narrative, even while concluding with disarming abruptness.

NZ International Film Festival 2005

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