Javier Fuentes-Leon's film 'Undertow' is a subtle, sympathetic portrait of a Peruvian fisherman torn between his pregnant wife and his gay lover. What's good about the film is the use it makes of the beautiful Pervuian coastline and the way it portrays status and dynamics within the community of a small fishing village; the acting is also good. But the major plot event occurs early, and afterwards there's a certain absence of drama: the range of things that might happen too constrained by what's already taken place. The film seems to start at least half-way through it's own natural story: inclusion of the events that predate the film's actual start might have added more drive to the narrative.
Review of Undertow
