Undertow

Undertow

  • Director: Javier Fuentes-León
  • Countries of origin: Peru, Colombia, France, Germany
  • Language: Spanish
  • Release date: April 16, 2010
  • Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
  • Sound mix: Dolby
  • Also known as: Nguoc Dòng
  • "Contracorriente" is a romantic film directed by Javier Fuentes-Leon and starring Christian Mercado, which opens in Peru on August 26th in Two Thousand And Ten .
    The film tells the story of a married fisherman struggling to reconcile his loyalty to his male lover amid the town's rigid traditions.

    Details

    • Release date April 16, 2010
    • Filming locations Cabo Blanco, Peru
    • Production companies Elcalvo Films, Dynamo, La Cinéfacture

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $108,620

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $6,749

    Gross worldwide

    $602,059

    Movie reviews

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    • By Darius 2022-12-26 20:11:46

      when love is already past

            In fact, I am the most loyal movie fan. It has become a habit to watch more than one movie every day. The movie world is vast, and I have my own movie viewing plans and choices every day. Watching "Counter Current in My Heart", in fact, I have seen quite a few gay movies. The more I watch, the more I realize that our love is always so sad and pale at the end, which is why I like to watch it the most. The reason for "I want to cover the tide" is also because a certain cen seduced me to...

    • By Sadye 2022-12-08 01:34:04

      Selfish Migu

      After watching it, I found that many of the film critics were moved and cried. Is there no one who condemned Migu?
      First of all, when I watched it, I was horrified. Migu is the one who wishes Sandiago the most to be invisible. Later, Migu found Sandiego's body but lied that he didn't find him and wanted to keep him by his side forever. I hope that my lover's world is only me, but my world is not only him, there can be other wonderful things. Perhaps it is understandable, many people...

    • By Napoleon 2022-12-07 06:56:38

      Listen, the sea cried. . .

      My thoughts are still full of that small fishing village by the sea. In the afternoon sun, the handsome Sentiago is still waiting for Miguel on the beach.
      Sentiago's eyes smile in the sun like a child, gentle all summer.


      This is a backward fishing village, and the villagers' thoughts are also backward. Miguel is afraid of all this. He dare not admit his love for Sentiago, so he cursed with vicious words in front of Sentiago, suffering in pain. Sentiago can only be his...

    • By Jimmy 2022-11-17 23:50:33

      You love him, he loves you, that's all



      I was a little timid about a movie I watched during the winter vacation when there was no one in the dormitory,

      because homosexuality is always a sensitive word in China,

      let alone a movie,

      but it still made me cry after watching

      that kind of hidden feeling that there is no way to let others The feeling of understanding,

      the soul locked on an island,

      and the unspeakable hug.

      I always felt that the meaning of...

    • By Garry 2022-11-04 06:11:34

      seabirds gone

      I haven't seen such a moving movie for a long time. After watching it, I couldn't calm down for a long time, because I cried deeply for this beautiful movie.
      He has a good wife, he has a good partner, and his parish finally understands him, and I take great comfort. The power of women is so great that his wife can go to those bitches when they are in trouble and say: if you spread rumors about my husband, I will goug out your eyes; his wife can bury his lover when he decides Go to the...

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    • By Boris 2023-09-27 00:29:47

      The rhythm, photography and the plot are all so "elegant"~~~ The protagonist looks so " ethereal...

    • By Ibrahim 2023-08-31 08:15:12

      The most commendable thing about this film is that it has the true feelings that are rarely seen in the same type of...

    • By Zachary 2023-07-17 21:19:40

      aunque no sea...

    • By Eduardo 2023-06-08 05:33:04

      No one is an island, I think maybe you are my...

    • By Bennie 2023-05-28 19:40:21

      Not handsome, just looked at it...

    Movie plot

    Miguel lives in a remote and backward fishing village in South America. This fishing village is very repulsive to foreign things because of backwardness and religious beliefs. Miguel is married, and his wife is seven months pregnant. Behind this calm and boring, there is a hidden secret. Miguel falls in love with Santiago, a painter who came to the fishing village to sketch. In this fishing village, Santiago is isolated from the whole...
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    Evaluation action

    Centered on Miguel, the film poetically shows how the issue of homosexuality can lurk, emerge, conflict and change in a closed, conservative space of cultural convention. More important, however, is to show how Eros affirms its own free nature in the midst of tensions and achieves a loyalty that transcends identity.
    A funeral is arranged at the beginning and end of the movie. The former one needs to be buried for a man who is related to...
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    Movie quotes

    • Miguel: I can't love you. It's not right.