solace in cinema : A vast wasteland of movies

It’s so great when you see really good poster art, and makes a refreshing change from the standard floating heads and terrible use of type I’ve come to expect. Old Joy was a film I had meant to catch at last years London Film festival but unfortunately missed. The film stars an amazing musician called Will Oldham AKA ‘Bonnie Prince Billy’, and was well received at the festival. Here’s the synopsis:

‘Old Joy’ is the story of two old friends, Kurt (Will Oldham) and Mark (Daniel London), who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. OLD JOY is a minimalist story of friendship, loss and alienation in the Bush era. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of his imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, it is part of a long series of carefree adventures. As the hours progress and the landscape evolves, the twin seekers move through a range of subtle emotions, enacting a pilgrimage of mutual confusion, sudden insight, and recurring intimations of spiritual battle. When they arrive at their final destination, a hot spring in an old growth forest, they must either confront the divergent paths they have taken, or somehow transcend their growing tensions in an act of forgiveness and mourning.

You can check out the trailer here

The dvd is due for release on April 9th (here in the UK) and the dvd cover art matches the poster, and I’ll have a review up soon.

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