Motel Woodstock

Ang Lee is fascinated by every detail of the 1969 rock festival -- a mixed blessing. His meticulous movie meanders

There are roughly half a million valid Woodstock stories, personal ones of lives transformed by the three days of peace, love, drugs, music and mud experienced by the masses who made their way to Max Yasgur's Catskills dairy farm for the legendary festival in the summer of '69. Director Ang Lee has chosen just one for "Taking Woodstock," a meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place that is, by turns, sweeping and intimate, poignant and painful, funny and flat, emotional and emotionless. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (5472 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 26 agosto 2009