Review: “Low Tide” is a quiet, devastating film about a fishing town

Shot on the Avalon coast with a cast of mostly non-actors.

A vintage film camera resting on piano keys

“Low Tide,” shot over two winters on the Avalon coast with a cast made up mostly of local fishermen, is the most affecting film this critic has seen this year.

Its director said she wanted to show a working town “without making it a postcard or a tragedy.” She succeeds on both counts.