Prince Avalanche

David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche (US, 2013) - Two highway road workers from the city spend the summer of 1988 working together in isolation against an isolated backdrop. With Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. Insinuatingly low-key, minimalist Icelandic seriocomedy "Either Way" gets a slightly broader yet perhaps even more satisfying U.S. translation in "Prince Avalanche." Despite the presence of A-listers Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as ill-matched road workers toiling in a recently burned Central Texas forest area, David Gordon Green's latest is closer to his poetical indie dramas than to his Hollywood efforts ("Pineapple Express," let alone "Your Highness"). But both paths actually harmonize in a warmly enjoyable dual-character study whose mix of comedic and serious elements should get the good reviews needed to bolster middling commercial prospects. 2013BERic, 2013SUN. RATING: 7