Upstream Color
Upsteam Color is around the shuffling life of Kris, one night she is attacked and hypnotized, using a grub with hypnotic properties, administered by a thief. She follows the thief';s instructions to give him everything, even taking out loans. After the worms are extracted, she wakes up to find her life ruined. She';s lost her job, her finances are destroyed. Years later, she meets Jeff whom she may have a lot in common with.
12 August 1948, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
1972, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
27 November 1965, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
25 November 1981, Florida, USA
4 December 1939, Colton, California, USA
February 20, 2014
No amount of concentrated analysis can really explain the level of deep emotion that Upstream Color effortlessly evokes.December 17, 2013
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.April 13, 2016
Carruth's film feels like a subconscious flow of fears and anxieties. But the clarity of this anxiety is bruising and stunning.January 22, 2014
Upstream Color is a trippy and enjoyable exploration of connections both direct and indirect.September 29, 2015
An equally frustrating and rewarding experience.December 17, 2013
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.December 17, 2013
If the movie is a bit of a mystery, so is Carruth.April 09, 2014
The remarkable Amy Seimetz is as central to the film as women in Krzysztof Kieslowski's late films, like Irène Jacob in "Three Colors: Red" and "The Double Life of Véronique" or Juliette Binoche in "Three Colors: Blue."August 27, 2013
The most visually imaginative American film since David Lynch's Eraserhead.January 02, 2014
It's evocative, but beneath the stylised direction and the mesmerising soundtrack, perhaps a little cold, like a concept album without a fully formed idea to drive it.December 17, 2013
Should you see Upstream Color? A better question may be: How many times should you see it?