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| | Mixed Reviews - Undertow - reviewed by Jill Cozzi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | It's fortuitous, then, that UNDERTOW, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and recently opened at the New York Film Festival, is helmed by David Gordon Green, whose languid and lyrical All the Real Girls garnered three Cinemarati Award nominations last year. |
 | | UNDERTOW, which the opening credits allude to being based on a true story, involves John Munn (Dermot Mulroney), a taciturn, none-too-successful widowed Georgia hog farmer who is raising his two sons Chris (Jamie Bell) and Tim (Devon Adam) away from civilization after the death of his wife. |
 | | Unlike Greene's previous film, the languor that hovers over UNDERTOW is undercut once Deel arrives, accompanied by his ever-present aura of barely-concealed malevolence, which explodes in some rather graphically violent scenes made all the more stomach-churning by the overall lyricism of the rest of the film. |
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