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- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h
- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h
Summary Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Directed By: Jacques Audiard
Written By: Thomas Bidegain, Craig Davidson, Jacques Audiard
- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h
- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h
Rust and Bone
73
7.8
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Summary Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Directed By: Jacques Audiard
Written By: Thomas Bidegain, Craig Davidson, Jacques Audiard
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
73
85% Positive
33 Reviews
33 Reviews
13% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
73
85% Positive
33 Reviews
33 Reviews
13% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Turns out to be one of the most transportingly romantic movies of the year, one that finds the most stirring emotion in struggle rather than in ginned-up melodrama or easy resolution.
Rust and Bone is a strong, emotionally replete experience, and also a tour de force of directorial button pushing. Mr. Audiard is a canny showman, adept at manipulating the audience's feelings and expectations with quick edits and well-chosen songs.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 100 User Ratings
7.8
86% Positive
86 Ratings
86 Ratings
11% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
3% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 100 User Ratings
7.8
86% Positive
86 Ratings
86 Ratings
11% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
3% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Just beautiful! Marion Cotillard really excels in expressing feelings with the less word possible. Audiard mixes love, sex and brutality like it's actually a natural thing. This drama is so down to earth and well acted that you accept every aspect of Ali & Staphanie's tough personality, even if they are not very lovable. They don't try to make you love them, they just tell a story with it's simplicity and all of it's complexity at the same time. Another Audiard and Cotillard home run.
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A satisfying story of yearning and, eventually, satisfaction.
A tough movie about tough people for a tough audience. So prepare to get roughed up a little.
A tender yet heavily de-romanticized love story between a boxer with broken hands and an orca trainer with missing legs, Rust and Bone serves as an impressive if somewhat overblown exercise in contrasts.
It runs a complicated bait and switch on its audience, passing ostensible exploitation fodder through a high-toned prestige filter.
Audiard himself might have benefited from a simple reminder of left from right; his rudderless film confuses a pileup of preposterous, sentimental scenarios with genuine emotion.
Rust and Bone is a brilliant movie, nothing like I have seen before. It is amazing how this film manage to show so much with little things, and those are a father with a son in need, a woman with an uncommon job and a dysfunctional love relationship. The director also apply small camera shots and low lighting, in order to demonstrate in a better way the emotions of the characters and the cruelty of the reality. The idea of the story is to exhibit Ali, a man that suddenly becomes in charge of his son, but the thing is that he does not know how to do it. When he or his son gets hungry, he looks for food scraps or steals from a store. If he needs money, he works in whatever it takes, no matter if other people get hurt. And when he is angry or stressed, he goes to a fight club. The protagonist is like an animal, does what he wants when he wants. So out of nowhere, he meets Stephanie, a killer whale trainer. And as the same as her whales, she will train Ali to face the world correctly. That is why he is rust, like a metal that cannot withstand the environment. And he needs to become bone, like Stephanie, that resists every obstacle in life. The most overwhelming part is the scene after the accident when she is on the rooftop of her building, practicing the old routine with the killer whales. You can notice that when she raises her arms, her eyes reflect an ineffable feeling of nostalgia, but with a willing of fighting.
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This is one of those films that grows on you, you know you sit there thinking what a lousy day today, drinking a beer and stuff. But as this film goes you’ll be getting into it, even though it’s not from the USA.
What happens to the ‘Chick’ is pretty **** up! Boy, she is pretty, and he does like her, but he makes it clear he doesn’t have much of those, type feelings, that people on Television have… you know that sort that ‘feels’ things, that women go wild for. He’s a meat and potato type of guy, just wanting to **** without all the **** that traps a man for real.
He’s a pretty cool guy though, although I coulda’ killed this **** for hurting that pretty little boy… I probably woulda if I’d been there, and when that end part happens, man, I’m just glad things turned out!
Really surprised to hear State Trooper Written and performed by Bruce Springsteen in the film. Mr. Springsteen sure doesn’t allow his music in Films, very often, I was thinking that he must have liked this movie quite a lot to allow them his voice.
Well worth seeing.
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Marion Cotillard stars as a whale trainer who loses her legs (thanx to some impressive CGI) and Matthias Schoenaerts plays a street fighter (and father of a young boy) who can't seem to get his act together. This French import develops thru their relationship, which unfolds in typical European episodic style (less narrative, fewer words). The performances are solid, but it's never particularly moving or forceful. A well-told character study.
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A ridiculous movie about a kick boxer's (Alain) relationship with a whale trainer (Stefanie), obviously not your everyday people. After Stefanie loses her legs, they have sex, but afterwards, on another date, Alain goes off right in front of Stefanie to spend an evening with another woman he just met. Stefanie says to him "we're not animals," but she's wrong as that's exactly what Alain is. Alain loves his son, which presumably makes him ok guy I would have given this movie a 1 had it not been for the good acting and direction as I think the plot and characters are garbage.
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The premise of the film was certainly ambitious. Not sure I can remember a movie attempting to cover so much ground. Perhaps that was the problem, as little effort was made to develop the characters or, perhaps they were just all rather depressing, pitiful and flat. The story is somewhat dark, gritty and largely unredeeming. Save your money.
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Production Company
Why Not Productions,
Page 114,
France 2 Cinéma,
Les Films du Fleuve,
Lumière,
Lunanime,
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF),
BIM Distribuzione,
Optimum Releasing,
Canal+,
Ciné+,
France Télévisions,
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles,
VOO,
Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds,
Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,
Département des Alpes-Maritimes,
Festive Films,
Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Dexia,
Neon Productions
Release Date Nov 23, 2012
Duration 2 h
Rating R
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
César Awards, France
• 4 Wins & 9 Nominations
Étoiles d'Or, France
• 5 Wins & 5 Nominations
