Upstream Color
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Upstream Color

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

2013 1h 36m ★ 6.3 (791 votes) Released

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.

Director

Shane Carruth

Writer

Shane Carruth

Rating
6.3
Runtime
96 min
Budget
$0.1M
Revenue
$0.4M
Profit/Loss
+0.3M

Production

erbp

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artlawless
★ 7/10 Jan 23, 2019

After almost 9 years since Primer, Shane Carruth returned with his next film, Upstream Color. Once again, Shane played multiple roles in the creation of this film – producer (one of), director, writer, actor (one of), music director, cinematographer and editor (one of). The film was made with a tiny budget of $50,000, wow, talk about being efficient. The story is not a convoluted one like Primer, which was based on time travel. That said, it’s not very straightforward either. It does talk about some unreal patterns and could get hard to understand at times. Do give it a watch if you haven’t already.

Keywords

hopesadnesshypnosislossromancedruggedparasiteexperimental

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