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Upstream Color
Directed by
Shane Carruth
Not Rated
2013
1h 36m
Drama
,
Science Fiction
,
and more
6.5
87%
69%
6.3
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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.
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Cast of Upstream Color
Amy Seimetz
Kris
Shane Carruth
Jeff / Director / Writer / Producer / Editor / Music
Andrew Sensenig
The Sampler
Thiago Martins
Thief
Carolyn King
Wife
Mollie Milligan
Maggie
Myles McGee
Monty
Ashton Miramontes
Lucas
Andreon Watson
Peter
Frank Mosley
Husband
John Walpole
Bank Investigator
Kerry McCormick
OBGYN
Marco Antonio Rodriguez
MRI Tech
Brina Palencia
Woman in Club
Jack Watkins
The Sampled
Karen Jagger
The Sampled
Joy Leigh
Dream Member (uncredited)
Ben LeClair
Producer
Toby Halbrooks
Co-Producer / Colorist
Brent Goodman
Executive Producer
Upstream Color Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
Upstream Color is a gorgeous movie-the play of sunlight in the visuals is exquisite-but its images of intestinal parasites are, well, off-putting.
Grantland
Wesley Morris
What the movie points to is worth following until you're left with an enormous map that you spend the rest of the drive trying to refold.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Carruth's visual approach, saved from abstraction by his own rapid, forward-leaping editing, is extremely assured. Seimetz is a fine and expressively haunted actress. I look forward to the enigmas in Carruth's next picture.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
By abandoning the need for specific interpretation, Carruth nails the fundamental inscrutability of the universe while remaining in awe of it the whole way through.
Entertainment Weekly
Melissa Maerz
If the movie is a bit of a mystery, so is Carruth.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Should you see Upstream Color? A better question may be: How many times should you see it?
Film Comment Magazine
Violet Lucca
Ultimately, Carruth's tale expresses that, despite the complexity and mutability of human beings, their essence persists.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
It's no surprise that Upstream Color is a head-scratcher, but its untrammeled emotionalism comes as a shock to the senses.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
It presents us with a glimpse of the vastness of existence, of our inner nature, and of nature without that is as equally dreadful, enveloping, and terrifying as it is beautiful.
Detroit News
Tom Long
"Upstream Color" is splendid, transcendent weirdness.
What the Flick?!
Alonso Duralde
I have no idea what it was about, and I can't wait to see it again.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
I loved it.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Sci-fi might have been too familiar a word, for what may induce a kind of hallucinatory melancholy in its viewers.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Meticulous and abstruse, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color is an idiosyncratic film that invites explication but defies total understanding.
Newsday
John Anderson
Elliptical and utterly fascinating adventure in cinema, one that defies simple explanations, but worms its way into the brain.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
Taken as a whole, it's an impressive piece of filmmaking that shows Carruth's talents as director, actor, cinematographer and composer.
The Atlantic
Ian Buckwalter
Carruth may be something that the movies haven't yet seen, perhaps the first great realization of the democratization of filmmaking that digital technology and the Internet promised.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Being completely understood at first glance is not on creator Shane Carruth's agenda, but while this may sound upsetting, it turns out to be quite the opposite.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
Visually and sonically hypnotic, it's an intensely sensory blend of internal monologue and unsettling mystery, draped over a thin skeleton of plot approached so obliquely that it seems almost inconsequential.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
No one else today approaches the genre in quite this way; the only precedent I can think of is Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth.
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