First let me say that Terrence Malick is as near to a living God that I have. He has given more to the cinema in three films than all but a handful of filmmakers did in entire careers of tens of titles. David Gordon Green has shown a tendency towards Malick's style of cinema, and has been quoted as saying how he admires the three masterpieces. Now, he has Malick as producer. Surely, 'Undertow' will be a loving 'homage', which, to an extent, it is, but I just feel that having his mentor looking over his shoulder hasn't been a salutary experience, and that 'Undertow' featuring Malick's trademark 'innocent narrator, and shot in what sometimes look like rejected sets from 'Badlands' (all genuflect), might have been better for breaking free.
Review of Undertow
