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Fri 11 Nov 2009Taking Woodstock
Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer
16 cert, lim release, 110 min
“WE ARE stardust. We are golden,” Joni Mitchell (who wasn’t there) sang when pretending to remember the celebration of musical mediocrity and blind optimism that was Woodstock. Stardust? Golden? Does that sound like something you’d like to experience? No wonder the hippie dream so quickly curdled into a target for ridicule and satire.
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