Taking Woodstock

Ang Lee’s latest picture takes a look at the origins of the Woodstock festival in New York in August of 1969. It is based on the autobiography of Elliot Tiber, the son of two Russian Jewish immigrants who maintain a not very successful farm in upstate New York. James Shamus wrote the screenplay together with Tiber, which is a delightful one. The film gets great support from the outstanding performance of Imelda Staunton as Eliot’s mother Sonia and this is an actress who truly is able to play a wide variety of roles and still remain unique in every one of them.

Taking Woodstock is about Woodstock, the people who surrounded the event, as any mass event that is about a main attraction that brings everyone together. It is as such an excellent human-interest story that is warm and entertaining.

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