Starring: Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff
Genre: Comedy | Music
Country: US
Plot
TAKING Woodstock is a comedy about the Woodstock Festival of 1969. The film follows the true story of Elliot Tiber, an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer in Upstate New York. He inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was.
Review
THE filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition and the cross-currents that trouble those deep waters, which serves Taking Woodstock well. But there are times when he holds himself apart, and wanders too far from the heart of things.
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
THERE is no actual music performance scene in the film, yet we can absolutely swear that we have been there, after watching the film. Much of the credit goes to Ang Lee’s cinematic choices: his use of multi-split screens, and the montages that create a clear sense of the vibrantly positive mood infecting everyone.
Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile
THOUGH director Ang Lee vibrantly captures the era, his focus on the mechanics of putting together the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival is juxtaposed with a humdrum coming-of-age tale. Setting this prosaic personal tale amid such a resonant socio-cultural event only intensifies the wan nature of the main story.
