Breathe easy everyone, King David Gordon Green has returned to making good movies again. It’s been four films since the former indie auteur has made a solid one, and three of those were not under studio restraints. After The Sitter shit on everything Green worked so hard for, I worried we’d never get back the man so many of us movie geeks once adored for his Sundance hits All the Real Girls and Snow Angels, and the dystopian future we read about in the Bible was on its way.
Upstream Color is a very layered and complex movie. But it’s also rich and beautiful. I expect nothing less from the crowded and radiant mind of Carruth. But it's difficult to express how much I admire this film with not a whole lot of positive things to say.
Citadel won the Midnighter Audience Award at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival and I can only assume it was because everyone was asleep during its showing. This film is not recommend for the easily frustrated. Or anyone, really.