This weekend Shane Carruth's second feature film "Upstream Color" will be released in limited theaters.
The film tells the abstract story of a man and woman who are drawn together and entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
"Color" made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize. It later went to Berlin Festival and the SXSW Film Festival where critics received it to great reviews. The film currently has an 87 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and has been called "A deeply sincere, elliptical movie about being and nature, men and women, self and other, worms and pigs."
The Hollywood Reporter was favorable and said "A dramatically obscure, technically brilliant experiment in speculative fiction from Shane Carruth."
Variety also gave it an exceptional review and stated "Upstream Color is a stimulating and hypnotic piece of experimental filmmaking."
Salon.com also enjoyed it and said "What I discern here is the work of a unique visual stylist and collage artist who's creating obsessive-compulsive allegorical puzzles, whose underlying philosophy is deliberately unclear."
Carruth is best known for his directional debut "Primer" which he premiered in 2004 at Sundance. That film won the Grand Jury prize and was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards.
"Upstream Color" stars Carruth, Amy Seimetz, Andrew Sensenig and Thiago Martins. The film will be released by ERBP films, Carruth's Production Company, in New York and is not rated.