As indie-film pairings go, The Good Heart ‘s reunion of Brian Cox and Paul Dano is a fairly provocative one. A decade after their collaboration in the controversial L.I.E. — featuring 15-year-old Dano as a disaffected young man who befriends Cox’s pedophile Big John Harrigan — the duo teams again in the tale of gruff bar owner Jacques (Cox) and his accidental protégé Lucas (Dano). They meet in the hospital where Jacques convalesces after his umpteenth heart attack and Lucas recovers from an attempted suicide. As the older man’s health deteriorates, Lucas’s applies his sensitivity to opening both the bar and its proprietor to a more inclusive manner of existence. Under Icelandic director Dagur Kári (making his American feature debut), Dano and Cox mount funny, bittersweet pas de deux around the clash of new and old, kind and coarse, and a New York City lost and found.
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Paul Dano: ‘I’m Just a Glutton For Punishment’
