

Upstream Color
You can force your story's shape, but the color will always bloom upstream.
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $100K
- Box office
- $444.1K
- Language
- English
- hope
- sadness
- hypnosis
- loss
- romance
- drugged
- parasite
- experimental
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival21 Jan 2013
- Theatrical (limited)NR5 Apr 2013
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical30 Aug 2013
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM9 Aug 2013
CanadaCA
- Theatrical (limited)12 Apr 2013
FranceFR
- Theatrical23 Aug 2017
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT1 Oct 2015
GreeceGR
- PremiereAthens Film Festival24 Sept 2013
SpainES
- Theatrical28 Mar 2014
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Upstream Color was released on 5 April 2013.
Audience reviews
1- A7/10
artlawless
1/23/2019
After almost 9 years since Primer, Shane Carruth returned with his next film, Upstream Color. Once again, Shane played multiple roles in the creation of this film – producer (one of), director, writer, actor (one of), music director, cinematographer and editor (one of). The film was made with a tiny budget of $50,000, wow, talk about being efficient. The story is not a convoluted one like Primer, which was based on t…
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