Movie Review: Upstream Colour

Pigs might fly

Drama/Thriller. M. Opens Aug 22

What’s It All About? A mysterious organism brings two lost souls together.

The Verdict: Trippy, beautiful and head-scratching. Did we say trippy?

3.0/5.0

Celluloid hallucinogenics don’t come much trippier than this.

"Unique, beautiful, bizarre and haunting"

When a parasite is forcibly inserted into Kris (Amy Seimetz, You’re Next) a hypnotic state follows, an uncanny transference-laced relationship with the deceptive Jeff (Shane Carruth, Primer) blossoms and telepathy with swine unknowingly develops. 

Have we met before?

This unique, beautiful, bizarre and haunting film from writer/director Carruth defies categorisation, let alone explanation. It’s mostly convincing, but that head-scratching abstractness also induces detachment.

This review appears in the September 2013 issue of Empire Magazine.