Old Joy

This is probably the best movie I've seen in a while. I spent the day at home after calling out sick and finally got around to watching it on Tivo. Here's a short description:

‘Old Joy’ is the story of two old friends, Kurt (Will Oldham) and Mark (Daniel London), who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. OLD JOY is a minimalist story of friendship, loss and alienation in the Bush era. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of his imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, it is part of a long series of carefree adventures. As the hours progress and the landscape evolves, the twin seekers move through a range of subtle emotions, enacting a pilgrimage of mutual confusion, sudden insight, and recurring intimations of spiritual battle. When they arrive at their final destination, a hot spring in an old growth forest, they must either confront the divergent paths they have taken, or somehow transcend their growing tensions in an act of forgiveness and mourning.

I read a review that called it a "Heterosexual Brokeback Mountain". An obvious oversimplification, but both movies did leave me with the same sad haunted feeling at the end.