Capone sits down with PRINCE AVALANCHE writer-director David Gordon Green and actors Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch
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Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here. For reasons I'm not even sure I can fully explain, David Gordon Green latest work, PRINCE AVALANCHE (based on the 2011 Icelandic film EITHER WAY), might end up being one of my favorite films of the year. It's a fairly quiet films that doesn't lean too hard in either the comedy or dramatic direction, but it incorporates both in its circa-1988 tale of two road workers painting lines on newly paved roads in Texas after terrible wildfires destroyed everything in the area. The men (Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch) have nothing in common and little to talk about except for the fact that Rudd's character is dating Hirsch's sister (whom we never see). The two men have to invent their own brand of small talk, but just as often, when they aren't working, they're exploring the burned-out countryside with unexpectedly moving results. The film blends humor with a few truly devastating sequences; it's a film where neither of its lead characters are quite sure what being a real man is about, so it almost feels like their trying on different "manly" personas for size. For those of you who have been longing for David Gordon Green to return to the world of more introspective works (unlike his string of comedies that included PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, YOUR HIGHNESS and THE SITTER), this is the one you've been waiting for and is his first truly great work since 2007's SNOW ANGELS. His new film,
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