Red Moon Tide (2020) - Lois Patiño

Red Moon Tide's stunning visual constructions, along with the mystical, brooding melancholy it invokes, made me miss the big screen more than ever. An immersive experience in which the mystical narrative elements are perfectly synthesized with the somber poignancy of its underlying social commentary.   Stillness reverberates, the omnipresence of nature is juxtaposed against man, elucidating the lack of autonomy and control one truly has over the elemental world.  Lying beneath its brooding atmospherics and lucid imagery is a story of communities left behind by modernity, detached from contemporary life they are slowly consumed by the primordial.  While humanity pretends to have transcended beyond the elemental with innovation, we largely remain at the mercy of the unbridled power of the elemental world. Staggeringly immersive, Red Moon Tide's stunning atmospherics and ambiguity provide ample opportunities for variant readings, yet what remains clear is Lois Patiño has crafted a beautifully immersive synthesis of the supernatural and natural worlds, a film that defies simple descriptors.  It's horrific, somber, chilling, and strikingly immersive -  a work of art that should be experienced on the largest screen possible.