Actors: Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody
Director: Whit Stillman
Whit Stillman's films often feel too trifling to be movies, and this one is certainly no different - while there's an air of sadness to this film, it's whimsical sadness. Everything is intentionally rendered as being both massively important and incredibly not-important, with our main character being analytical in an eccentric way. The film never really comes together and how the plot resolves I can't even remember, but I don't really care - I enjoy Whit Stillman films a lot. Even though he's 60 years old, here he somehow evokes the anxieties and pleasures of college-bound youth, while getting some fantastic shots.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Upstream Color - 2013 - 3½ Stars
Actors: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth
Director: Shane Carruth
Rating this movie is quite silly - so silly that I may take the rating off by the time I finish this post. I've read a lot of reviews comparing this film to The Tree Of Life, but that film was at least 90% comprehensible - the end was a puzzle, but not so much of one that you couldn't invent a meaning for the ending yourself. Upstream Color is alternately opaque and enchanting, an unsolvable mystery. But all that is okay - there are pieces of the film that will resonate and others that will fall away. All in all, I kinda have no idea what happened but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Carruth is a filmmaker of the 21st century or perhaps beyond. His films are like nothing else going - here's hoping this one does well enough that he can continue to make more.
Director: Shane Carruth
Rating this movie is quite silly - so silly that I may take the rating off by the time I finish this post. I've read a lot of reviews comparing this film to The Tree Of Life, but that film was at least 90% comprehensible - the end was a puzzle, but not so much of one that you couldn't invent a meaning for the ending yourself. Upstream Color is alternately opaque and enchanting, an unsolvable mystery. But all that is okay - there are pieces of the film that will resonate and others that will fall away. All in all, I kinda have no idea what happened but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Carruth is a filmmaker of the 21st century or perhaps beyond. His films are like nothing else going - here's hoping this one does well enough that he can continue to make more.
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