Bienvenido a Woodstock
Director:
Ang LeeGuión:
James SchamusCámara:
Eric GautierMúsica:
Danny ElfmanReparto:
Demetri Martin, Kevin Chamberlin, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eugene Levy, Katherine Waterston, Imelda Staunton (más)Streaming (1)
Sinopsis(1)
Año 1969. Elliot Tiber, un decorador afincado en Greenwich Village, Nueva York, al que las cosas le van francamente mal, debe volver a su pueblo en el estado de Nueva York para ayudar a sus padres a llevar un viejo motel llamado El Monaco. El banco está a punto de quedarse con el negocio; el padre de Elliot amenaza con quemar el edificio, pero no ha pagado el seguro; y él ni siquiera tiene dinero para llegar a casa de sus padres. Al enterarse de que un pueblo vecino ha dado la autorización para que se celebre un festival hippy de música, llama a los organizadores pensando que puede ser la ocasión de revitalizar el motel. Tres semanas después, medio millón de personas se dirigen hacia la granja de su vecino en White Lake. Elliott está a punto de sumergirse en una experiencia que definirá a toda una generación, cambiará su vida y la cultura pop para siempre. (Universal Pictures España)
(más)Reseñas (1)
This film could have become the ultimate mocking satire and at the same time a great comedy. The subject itself called for an ironic treatment, because the legend of Woodstock as one of the catalysts of the hippie movement was born as an unintended enchantment. Practically all the organizers and local residents saw the concert as a unique opportunity to get wasted the American way and any ideals were completely foreign to them. Thanks to incredible incompetence and underestimation of the situation, one of the biggest logistical failures in human history occurred. It was only by sheer luck and also because a significant portion of the participants were still recovering from previous partying and marijuana smoking, that a tragedy similar to Altamont, which happened three months later, did not occur. Although Ang Lee started off well, he soon deviated toward such a harmless celebration of the Woodstock legend and flower ideals that humor, let alone satire, soon disappears and the director simply strokes the hippie legend on the head, failing to live up to my initially high expectations. If there is something the film truly portrays well, it is the loosening of sexual prudery in the second half of the 60s. Many hippie ideals were lost, but this generation was much more open-minded and brought greater freedom to women, homosexuals, and basically everyone. It barely earns three stars, because the subject could have been used much more effectively. Overall impression: 50%.
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