Summer Cinema: Old Joy

“Sorrow is nothing but worn out joy.”

A road movie featuring music by Yo La Tengo, with Will Oldham (a.k.a. Bonnie “Prince” Billy) in one of the leading roles. Two old friends, Kurt and Mark, reunite after many years to spend a weekend together on a trip to the Cascade Mountains east of Portland, Oregon. As they journey through the changing landscape towards a hot spring deep in the forest, they realise that their lives have long since taken different paths. The joy of their old friendship evokes in both of them melancholic memories of a bygone youthful idealism that has been irretrievably lost. What can replace it?

Old Joy
Director: Kelly Reichardt
USA, 2006, 76 min.
free entry
in the original language with Czech subtitles

The summer cinema returns to MeetFactory for the fourteenth time. We’ll be screening eleven films in the courtyard, selected by members of the MeetFactory team. In June and July screenings begin at 9:30 p.m.; in August and September at 8:30 p.m.
Before the screening, you can visit the current exhibitions in the MeetFactory Gallery and the Kostka Gallery free of charge.
A bar is available on site, and admission to all screenings is free. More general info at our website.