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Old Joy (2006)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Sep 20, 2006

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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Details Limited Release: Sep 20, 2006; Rated: Unrated; Length: 76 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Daniel London and Will Oldham

$HAPPY CAMPERS? London (top) and Oldham explore the nature of friendship and growing up in Reichardt\'s satisfying Old Joy$

HAPPY CAMPERS? London (top) and Oldham explore the nature of friendship and growing up in Reichardt's satisfying Old Joy

One man (Daniel London) faces impending fatherhood, the other (Will Oldham) still clings to a notion of carefree, unencumbered drift. And what begins for these two longtime pals as a weekend mountain camping trip becomes in Old Joy, filmmaker Kelly Reichardt's shimmering, quiet treasure of a film, an elegy to mutable friendship, enduring nature, and the sense of loss that inevitably accompanies the adult pull to move forward. It's in all the moments where little happens that Reichardt is most amazing, investing even a gas-station pit stop with perfect emotional pitch.

Originally posted Sep 20, 2006 Published in issue #899 Sep 29, 2006 Order article reprints

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