A light comedy that feels like a make-work scheme between more ambitious projects, Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock is at once a fluent display of technical precision and an under-realized reiteration of '60s cliches, writes reviewer Philip Martin in Friday's MovieStyle section.
The film, opening Friday, is likely to irritate the people who might seem to be its natural constituency, the people who remember - or as the old joke goes, can't remember - the '60s while affirming the prejudices of those who consider baby boomers insufferably self-indulgent cultural imperialists.
Maybe the best way to receive the film is as a symphony of faces and period details, the product of meticulous research and lots of looking at old issues of Life magazine. And probably more than a few screenings of Michael Wadleigh's concert film Woodstock, which is probably the most significant reference for those of us who weren't actually at the festival.
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