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IMDb rating 6.7
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Critic rating 6.8

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Critic Roger Ebert
rated 8

...has the freshness of something being created, not remembered.

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Critic Keith Phipps
rated 5

Lee’s movie is pleasant enough, but it’s too swept up in the spirit it’s celebrating to ask the relevant questions...

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Critic Philip Wilding
rated 6

...the rain-splattered site dotted with broken-down tents captures the feeling of dismay as the decade of hope comes to an end in a slurry-filled field.

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Critic Henrik Østergaard
rated 8

Taking Woodstock er en film om ungdomsoprøret fra stor til lille skala. Og Woodstock er det mikrokosmos, hvor oprøret sker.

Read full review at Cinemazone

Cast & Crew

Josh Safdie
As Documentary Cameraman
Josh Safdie
Director
Ang Lee
Director
Liev Schreiber
As Wilma
Eugene Levy
As Max Yasgur

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In the summer of 1969, Elliot Tiber, a struggling interior designer from Greenwich Village, returns home to help his parents save their run-down motel, El Monaco, in Bethel, New York. With the motel facing financial troubles and the bank threatening to foreclose, Elliot sees an opportunity to revitalize the business by hosting a small musical festival. He obtains a permit from the town's chamber of commerce and offers the motel and its facilities to the organizers of the Woodstock Festival, who are facing opposition against their originally planned location. Elliot's offer is accepted, and the festival is set to take place on Max Yasgur's nearby farm. As more and more people arrive, the festival grows in size and scope, becoming the iconic Woodstock Music and Arts Festival that defines a generation.

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