Prince Avalanche (2013)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 79
Fresh: 66 | Rotten: 13
A step back in the right direction for director David Gordon Green, Prince Avalanche shambles amiably along with a pair of artfully low-key performances from Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 6
A step back in the right direction for director David Gordon Green, Prince Avalanche shambles amiably along with a pair of artfully low-key performances from Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch.
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Driven by striking performances from Rudd and Hirsch, Prince Avalanche is an offbeat comedy about two men painting traffic lines on a desolate country highway that's been ravaged by wildfire. Against this dramatic setting, the men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship. Funny, meditative and at times surreal, Prince Avalanche features a score by Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo, and was shot by frequent Green collaborator Tim Orr was. Loosely adapted
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Cast
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Paul Rudd
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Emile Hirsch
Lance -
Lance Le Gault
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Joyce Payne
Lady -
Gina Grande
Madison -
Lynn Shelton
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Larry Kretschmar
Lumberjack -
Enoch Moon
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David L. Osborne Jr.
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Danni Wolcott
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Morgan Calderoni
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Savanna Porter
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Juniper Smith
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All Critics (79) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (13)
Its absurdist tact won't be for everybody, but there is satisfaction in the nuanced, often-pleasing performances from Rudd and Hirsch as they slowly reveal their characters to both the audience and each other. These two grow on you.
Top CriticIt's an intimate two-hander with lots of dialogue, humour and poignant revelations, set against a backdrop of rugged woodland beauty.
[A] gently existentialist buddy movie.
The performances and ghostly, melancholic atmosphere make it satisfying twist on the male buddy film.
David Gordon Green somehow brings together the poetic sensibility of his independent art movies and the humorous lowbrow non sequiturs of his studio comedies; the results are one of a kind and often weirdly moving.
It's an actors' showcase. But Green films it with real feeling and an eye for parts of the Lone Star State that, as we can see, are no longer.
Writer-director David Gordon Green... lets the fractured friendship between Alvin and Lance make its own circuitous path, finding little gems along the way.
Effortless and filled with gorgeous sights and sounds, the storyline may seem simple, but Green actually appears to be doing more here than just razzing a couple of highway workers stuck in the sad state of their own limited love lives.
Both lead performances help give the film moments of eccentric charm, even if it's pretentious as a whole.
The two principal characters' interactions and extended conversations deftly blend comedy and poignancy.
If "Waiting for Godot" was about the eternal, existential paralysis of life, "Avalanche" is more hopeful, suggesting that we can move forward - one tiny yellow line at a time.
While the story may have weak legs, the relationship between Alvin and Lance is strong enough to make Prince Avalanche a lonely road worth traveling.
A solid return to form for David Gordon Green, and great stuff from Rudd and Hirsch. Also...stellar soundtrack.
Prince Avalanche is a quiet study in awkward male bonding, as Alvin and Lance try to find common ground in their worldviews.
It's good to see Green getting back to what he does best.
The central tension in Prince Avalanche is one between solitude and community.
This is a soft-sell postcard to people reaching true understanding through the messy and inefficient process of everyday conversation. It's a little bit funny, a little bit scary. And all very human.
David Gordon Green's latest film has the amusing buoyancy of a lark but the existential depth of a head-scratcher. The film entertains, puzzles, and strays outside the lines.
It is an absurd and touching little film that has more heart than one would expect to find in such a slight body.
Strangely affecting...a small-scaled film that offers an alternately funny and sad rumination on the fragility of human affairs.
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- Prince of Texas (FR)
