Old Joy (2006)

This movie marks, together with the immediately following "Wendy and Lucy" (2008) samples intimate cinema's most recognizable feature of the american filmmaker Kelly Reichardt. Both movies share the same atmosphere of independent film, made ​​with lots of freedom but little means and gestural based almost anecdotal but always accompanied by an emotionally charged.

If in "Wendy & Lucy" the centerpiece was the relationship between a boy and his lost dog, "Old Joy" based this relationship on the reunion and wanderings of two friends who have followed very different life paths and decide to spend a weekend together in a rugged mountain.

Referring to the natural environment, it is true that comes to establish itself as third star of the narrative. The unquestionable beauty of the landscape is something that has often praised those who have referred to this movie, and not without reason. Something to value, coupled with a tight soundtrack ("Yo la tengo") that perfectly accompanies the images, and the exquisite silence of the dead time caused by the very lack of communication between two old friends whom time has left too much to share.

6/10