‘High Tide’ Review: A Lukewarm Queer Immigrant Drama With a Blazing Lead Performance

‘High Tide’ Review: Gay Sex, Sadness, and Longing as an Undocumented Immigrant Faces the Future in Provincetown

The main draw on the surface of writer-director Marco Calvani’s lovely if overly dramatic feature debut is the jaw-dislocating physical beauty of its star. That might sound crass, but “High Tide” is a movie that dares you not to be obsessed with — and attracted to — its leading man. Actor Marco Pigossi, Calvani’s real-life partners, enters the first frame as if sculpted out of marble, or butter even, stripping down to nothing and rushing into th…

‘High Tide’ Review: An Undocumented Immigrant Finds a Reprieve From His Lonely Limbo in Tender Queer Drama

Marco Pigossi plays an undocumented queer immigrant adrift in Provincetown in Marco Calvani’s 'High Tide,' also featuring Marisa Tomei and Bill Irwin.

‘High Tide’ Review: A Lukewarm Queer Immigrant Drama With a Blazing Lead Performance

‘Gen V’ star Marco Pigossi bares his soul in Marco Calvani’s 'High Tide,' a story of a Brazilian tourist in legal limbo.