Undertow (Peru) Reviews

After the surprise international success of Brokeback Mountain in 2005, expectations ran high that this marvelous, affecting film might be the first of a new wave of more openly candid dramas concerning matters of sexuality. The wave, however, didn’t happen. Unlike other bandwagons that movie studios routinely jump on once something hits big, storylines involving bi-curious men and women have not manifested themselves to any great degree, at least not in this country. Peru, however, submitted a film of much quality and substance for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar last year, Javier Fuentes-Leon’s Undertow. Though it wasn’t ultimately selected for the final list of five nominees, the film captured almost fifty awards around the world for its notably adult story of men and women struggling with sexual orientation issues amid a society notoriously grounded in traditional machismo. 

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