Old Joy (2005)7.6 /10

Storyline:  A short camping trip by two old friends in search of a quasi-mystical oasis, the Bagby Hot Springs near Oregon’s Mount Hood. The two actors in this Cain-Abel story inhabit their characters in a way that transcends their blatant types: Kurt (Will Oldham), the slightly paunched post-hippie with the receding hairline, bushy beard, and never-present promise; Mark (Daniel London), the now-responsible father-to-be, intent on putting the Kurt part of his life behind him, but also silently nostalgic for the days when he could, say, protest an unjust war. They’ve gone their separate ways, and are tentative about the new rules of their relationship: their trip becomes a kind of Edenic descent, imbued with an almost Malickian transcendentalism.