Lois Patino consolidates his reputation as a leading European exponent of poetic moving images with his second feature length effort, Red Moon Tide (Lua vermella).
A challenging work which punctuates taxing stretches of austere stasis with interludes of sublime beauty — including a ravishingly spectacular underwater finale — it uses a slight fable of a story as framework for some extravagant sensory stimulations.
This mythologically-inspired tale of enigmatic supernatural doings on Spain's rugged northwest coast bowed at the Berlinale Forum ahead of Manhattan's New Directors / New Films and prominent festivals in South America (Cartagena, Colombia) and Mexico City (FICUNAM).
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