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Byline: John Powers
The best film I saw at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy has a radiant Zen simplicity. Two longtime buddies, one (Daniel London) a bit yuppified, the other (Will Oldham) something of a feckless drifter, head off for a camping trip in an Oregon wilderness that Reichardt's camera treats as a paradise soon to be lost. Although not much happens-the guys reminisce, go astray on a back road, search for an isolated hot springs-their trip seems to encapsulate everything. We learn exactly who these men are, witness the delicate rituals of male bonding, and feel the ache of passing time and cooling affection. Quietly heartbreaking, Reichardt's elegy to friendship may be small in scale-it makes ...