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Upstream Color

2013

Shane Carruth

Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins ...

6.2

4,473

Sci-Fi. Drama. Romance A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"'Upstream Color' certainly is something to see if you’re into brilliant technique, expressive editing, oblique storytelling, obscuritanist speculative fiction or discovering a significant new actress"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"As mystifying as his 2004 sci-fier, 'Primer', albeit for entirely different reasons, Shane Carruth's 'Upstream Color' is a stimulating and hypnotic piece of experimental filmmaking"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"With its fragmentation and mysteries, “Upstream Color” offers itself up as a puzzle as well as a philosophical toy that you can spin and spin until the cafe closes and kicks you into the night"	POS
United States	Jim Emerson rogerebert.com	"The movie is designed as an enigmatic experience, to be absorbed, felt, puzzled over, free-associated about and reconsidered while you're watching it (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is invigoratingly freaky and strange (...) A cinema of ideas, which intersect and pulsate with the sounds and images (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"An intensely beautiful and enigmatic puzzle picture (...) It’s the type of art that inspires curiosity and obsession, like some beautiful object whose meaning remains tantalizingly out of reach."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"[It is like being] inside not one of your own dreams but someone else’s, a dream that’s both compelling and unnerving in ways you can’t put your finger on"	NEU
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"It conveys a sense of having been invented spontaneously by means of the camera, as if Carruth were discovering the story in real time rather than realizing it as planned"	POS
United States	Calum Marsh Slant	"[It] is lush, rhythmic, and deeply sensual, a film of exceptional beauty (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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