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âRed Moon Tideâ Review: A Village Paralyzed in Grief
Subjects stand frozen against majestic landscapes in Lois Patiñoâs meditation on how Galician mythology intersects with a villageâs search for souls lost at sea.
A scene from âRed Moon Tide.âCredit.Mubi
By Natalia Winkelman
Red Moon Tide
Drama
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âRed Moon Tide,â the enchanting second feature from the Spanish director Lois Patiño, is a portrait of a seaside village suspended in an extraordinary catatonia. Its transfixion is contagious. Indeed, I was hesitant to move during the experience for atavistic fear of disrupting the trance.
Red Moon Tide is streaming on Mubi.
Located on Galiciaâs northwest seaboard, Costa da Morte is a craggy stretch of land where the earth meets the Atlantic in a biblical display of crashing waves and jutting rock formations. Named for the many shipwrecks that have occurred along its shore, Costa da Morte lent its name, mythology and magnificent vistas to experimental filmmaker Lois Patiñoâs 2013 feature Coast of Death, the Spanish artistâs first feature-length work following a number of shorts that dealt with landscape and the anthropological forces that pit humanity against the natural world.
Red Moon Tide, Patiñoâs long-awaited follow-up, finds the filmmaker returning to the same location for a more sustained exploration of not only the porous boundaries between fact and folklore, the living and the dead, but also how myth-making has transformed the language and imagination of the Galician people.Â