Red Moon Tide(Lúa vermella)

The Film Stage by Christian Gallichio

Red Moon Tide is obviously the work of a director willing to push the boundaries of visual narrative, but he doesn’t see that work fully through.

Slant Magazine by Jake Cole

Lois Patiño’s Red Moon Tide is a work of unmistakable horror, one predicated on such ineffable dread that the impact of climate change becomes a sort of Lovecraftian force.

The New York Times by Natalia Winkelman

Though thin on story, the film (streaming on Mubi) is a majestic vision. But most captivating are the settings.

The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young

A challenging work which punctuates taxing stretches of austere stasis with interludes of sublime beauty — including a ravishingly spectacular underwater finale — it uses a slight fable of a story as framework for some extravagant sensory stimulations.

The Guardian by Steve Rose

The trance-like pacing and mystical meditation might frustrate viewers looking for an easy watch, but local film-maker Lois Patiño is clearly operating at the fine-art end of the cinema scale. He applies his distinctive mode to a story that’s both ravishing and unsettling.