Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
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Set against the backdrop of 1970's Texas Hill Country, AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS is a romantic American story that follows three characters on various sides of the law - outlaw Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck), his wife Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara), and a local sheriff named Patrick Wheeler (Ben Foster), who gets caught in their crosshairs. The film, which is the second feature from writer-director David Lowery, was developed at the Sundance Institute's Writing and Producing Labs and also stars Nate
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a fever dream facsimile of an eventful movie
Top CriticDavid Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints landed with the excitement of a bold new voice, and yet, there's also something undeniably old-fashioned in his approach, suggesting a lost artifact freshly unearthed from the 1970s.
An exceptionally beautiful, if a bit fuzzy-headed, romantic Texas outlaw saga that announces a considerable talent in writer-director David Lowery.
There is almost certainly a major nod here to Badlands, as well as Thieves Like Us, and more generally speaking, Lowery seems intent on re-exploring the essence of that particular period of outlaw movies.
Gorgeous. Like a lost Terrence Mallick movie from the seventies.
The film is so singular, it's hard to place. At times, its elegiac visual quality evokes Terrence Malick, but Lowery's scripting is tighter and more accessible. His is truly a fresh voice, exhilarating to hear.
This is a consistently moving tone poem of a film, even if its immediacy doesn't necessarily translate into long-lasting resonance.
Ain't Them Bodies Saints is such a persuasively cinematic experience that one ultimately forgives (but doesn't forget) the threadbare story and obvious reference points on display.
There's something alluringly, disconcertingly off-kilter from the get-go in Ain't Them Bodies Saints.
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Casey Affleck was good here. I like when he plays roles like this one as well as Assassination of Jessie James and Killer Inside Me. I still think his best role was in the Killer Inside Me. Rooney Mara was ok, but I think another actress in that role would have done a better job. I believe Natalie Portman would have nailed the role. Mara has no on screen chemistry with Affleck, in my opinion. Ben Foster is great in his role.
Overall, the film is worth checking out for the performances in it.