A haunted young woman spirals into confusion and chaos after she falls under the spell of a potent, reality-altering drug.
Release Date: September 22nd, 2017
R |1 hr 41 min
Plot SummaryA haunted young woman spirals into confusion and chaos after she falls under the spell of a potent, reality-altering drug.
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Pilou Asbæk, Joe Cole, Jack Kilmer, Steph DuVall, Susan Traylor
Director: Kate Mulleavy , Laura Mulleavy
Genres: Drama
Production Co: Waypoint Entertainment, COTA Films
There’s a thin, and very jagged, line between the radical mosaic approach to editing and narrative of a film like Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color and the impressionistic jigsaw vagueness of Woodshock, which simply seems reluctant to commit itself to mere coherence, as if that simply were too unchic. show more
Woodshock is a movie which doesn’t seem to have much interest in being a movie. It revels in images and sensations...without much mind paid to story or character development or really even any context demanded by the difficult issues it raises. show more
The main problem is that the directors often struggle to assign meaning to their images that helps advance either the narrative or illuminate the emotional state of their main character. show more
