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.
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did you read that interview with him on grantland a week or two ago?
ReplyDeleteI didn't, no - I've kind of been skimming interviews with him because while I'd love to know more about his process, I don't want his view on what anything in this film means. I'll have to skim that one though.
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