But Amiel also demonstrates a flair for visual poetry, balancing the restrained with inventive surreal touches that represent Darwin's internal processes, whether using time lapse photography to evoke a character's rumination on the life cycle of a baby bird or bringing Darwin's many hallucinations and nightmares to lyrical life. (movies.com)
On its margins, at least, the film proves conceptually adventurous: Almereyda (Hamlet, Nadja) includes eccentric / surreal touches like a literal elephant in the room, a monochromatic expression of Milgram's domestic life, and scenes of Sarsgaard breaking the fourth wall to tell his character's story. (film.avclub.com)
Reviewing the film for The Times, Sheri Linden said, «With its gauzily surreal touches, «Woodshock» reflects the Mulleavys» romantic flair for texture and embellishment. (southflorida.com)