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Upstream Color

You can force your story's shape, but the color will always bloom upstream.

2013 · 1h 36m · NOT RATED Drama, Science Fiction
Directed by Shane Carruth

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A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

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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.

Wesley Morris, Grantland
Fresh

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.

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

If the movie is a bit of a mystery, so is Carruth.

Melissa Maerz, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh

Should you see Upstream Color? A better question may be: How many times should you see it?

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh

The most visually imaginative American film since David Lynch's Eraserhead.

Trevor Johnston, Time Out

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