Prince Avalanche

Alvin and Lance, two men dressed like Super Mario Brothers, search for meaning among terrestrial ashes. It's 1988, so they carry no cell phones, laptops or pagers. Alvin left his partner, Lance's sister, behind in the city, but brought along a mess kit, notebook and questions about what's next. They look for answers while renovating roads destroyed by flames. Though the two share little in common, they mature to mutual understanding, a kind of rough, manly friendship connected by the shiny yellow lanes they paint on the asphalt. Many illusions will fall before they finish. The moon-like dystopian landscape and soundtrack by the post-rock Explosions in the Sky add to the feeling of alienation. Along with his characters, the director learns how to differentiate loneliness from isolation. While PrinceAvalanche is a remake of the Icelandic film Either Way, it is also a fully autonomous and auteur voice that resounds with Green's characteristically envelope-pushing humor, irony, but also heartfelt emotion.