★★★☆☆ Roberto Minervini's accomplished feature, Low Tide (2012), is set in the badlands of Texas and focuses upon a boy and his mother one long, hot summer. The Boy (brilliant newcomer Daniel Blanchard) is a Huckleberry Finn of the contemporary USA: he enjoys the timeless boyish pursuits of catching frogs, fishing and exploring the countryside but these are minor interludes between backbreaking errands, cleaning up after his mother (the excellent Melissa McKinney) and earning a living. A little less Twain and a lot more Dickens.
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- 9/2/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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