“Blow the Man Down”–Maine Down Under
Premiering at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, Blow the Man Down is a film debut by writer-directors Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy. It opens in Easter Cove, a small parochial fishing village along the coast of Maine, in a somewhat clichéd but contemporary riff on “Murder She Wrote”.
We see a history of covering up secrets by the
small town’s residents. And we listen to
a chorus of fishermen sing “blow the man down” –referring to the
shoving of a man to the bottom of a boat, either accidentally or on purpose. ...