Rust and Bone (2012)
(De rouille et d'os)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Jacques Audiard
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure
Synopsis:
A drifter with a five year-old son in tow puts up with his sister in Toulon, and meets a girl casually at a disco where he works as a bouncer. When she suffers a catastrophic accident at the marine world where she works, their relationship hits a symbiotic rhythm all its own, as his propensity for violence finds its counterpart in her need for a soul as crippled as her own.
Review:
Audiard's Midas touch faltered with this extraordinary drama, on the face of it so rebarbative as to be offputting, but fitting neatly into his filmography as another tale of brute masculinity rescued by female fragility. It may stand as the first low-budget art house project to utilize green screen technology so unostentatiously, and in a manner subordinate to narrative demands. Schoenaerts announced himself as a new screen presence to be reckoned with, and Cotillard plumbed new depths of self-exposure, but many found it a rough ride.
(De rouille et d'os)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Jacques Audiard
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure
Synopsis:
A drifter with a five year-old son in tow puts up with his sister in Toulon, and meets a girl casually at a disco where he works as a bouncer. When she suffers a catastrophic accident at the marine world where she works, their relationship hits a symbiotic rhythm all its own, as his propensity for violence finds its counterpart in her need for a soul as crippled as her own.
Review:
Audiard's Midas touch faltered with this extraordinary drama, on the face of it so rebarbative as to be offputting, but fitting neatly into his filmography as another tale of brute masculinity rescued by female fragility. It may stand as the first low-budget art house project to utilize green screen technology so unostentatiously, and in a manner subordinate to narrative demands. Schoenaerts announced himself as a new screen presence to be reckoned with, and Cotillard plumbed new depths of self-exposure, but many found it a rough ride.
(De rouille et d'os)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Jacques Audiard
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure
Synopsis:
A drifter with a five year-old son in tow puts up with his sister in Toulon, and meets a girl casually at a disco where he works as a bouncer. When she suffers a catastrophic accident at the marine world where she works, their relationship hits a symbiotic rhythm all its own, as his propensity for violence finds its counterpart in her need for a soul as crippled as her own.
Review:
Audiard's Midas touch faltered with this extraordinary drama, on the face of it so rebarbative as to be offputting, but fitting neatly into his filmography as another tale of brute masculinity rescued by female fragility. It may stand as the first low-budget art house project to utilize green screen technology so unostentatiously, and in a manner subordinate to narrative demands. Schoenaerts announced himself as a new screen presence to be reckoned with, and Cotillard plumbed new depths of self-exposure, but many found it a rough ride.