OLD JOY on DVD
August 26th, 2007 by Andre Soares
Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, a minimalist micro-budget psychological drama about two friends who go hiking and hot-spring-bathing together (along with a canine named Lucy) in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains, was one of the pleasures of the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival.
The Kino DVD release of this touching study about the things that bring human beings together — and about those other things that eventually keep them apart — comes with the theatrical trailer, a slide show of production stills, and commentary by director Reichardt, filmmaker Michael Almereyda, and cinematographer Peter Sillen, whose lenses made me feel as if I were relaxing in the hot springs right next to Lucy.
Directed and edited by Reichardt (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Raymond), Old Joy features Daniel London and cult musician Will Oldham as the two buddies in the woods. Yo La Tengo provides the excellent score.
Movies don’t get much more Zen than this.
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