Blow the Man Down (2019)
Directed by Danielle Krudy
While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village.
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Its matriarchal society, where a group of three stands up to its shadiest, suggests New England’s history with witchcraft while its plot of how a death in a fishing community calls up old history while impacting its younger generation recalls “Manchester by the Sea.”
“Blow the Man Down,” directed by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy (it’s their first feature), is a drama of murder, sex, and small-town secrets set in Easter Cove, a fishing village in Maine that brings to mind the windswept coastal town of “Manchester by the Sea” — in fact, the place is so tiny and barren and gnarled it makes Manchester by the Sea look like Rome.
Blow the Man Down is rich in atmosphere thanks to the attention to detail paid in creating the film’s very specific world; one sees not only the influence of the Coen brothers and their body of work but also shades of Kenneth Lonergan’s elegiac Manchester by the Sea .
Writer-directors Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy get the New England look and feel down so well that even the characters in "Manchester by the Sea" would be proud.
The main story revolves around the aforementioned corpse, a sack of cash, and a brothel run by town kingpin Enid (Margo Martindale); a combination of elements that might have made for an routine potboiler in the vein of, say, Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, but Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy, who wrote and directed the film, are more interested in exploring the painful secrets lying just below the surface of this seemingly docile town.