Synopsis
Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, is torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug.
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Cast
- Kirsten DunstTheresa
- Joe ColeNick
- Pilou AsbækKeith
- Steph DuVallEd
- Jack KilmerJohnny
- Susan TraylorTheresa's Mother
- Joel McCoyForeman
- Michael PavlicekMike
- Joseph Wray BarneyKid at Party #1
- Henry PokorskiKid at Party #2
Recommendations
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The Playlist
Filmmaking craft is not the issue here, it’s the timidity of the storytelling that sits in sharp contrast to the boldness of some of the visual and sonic experimentation. - 50
The A.V. Club
Viewers who thought nothing much happened in "It Comes At Night" are advised to steer clear. - 50
IndieWire
Woodshock offers a whole lot to look at, but not all that much to see. - 42
Paste Magazine
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. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 40
Variety
With the film’s human element so glassy and its storytelling so thin, however, all this elegant formal trickery soon turns more aggravating than intoxicating — by its extremely splintered, impressionistic finale, the film skates perilously close to misery chic. - 30
Screen Daily
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. - 30
The New York Times
Unlike their spring 2018 fashion collection, Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s first foray into moviemaking, “Woodshock,” is depressingly dull and terminally inarticulate.
