De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 155
Fresh: 127 | Rotten: 28
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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 47
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 11
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.8/5
User Ratings: 19,255
Movie Info
A struggling single father helps a beautiful whale trainer recover her will to live following a terrible accident that leaves her confined to a wheelchair. Lonely and destitute, Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) leaves the north of France for his sister's house in Antibes after becoming the sole guardian of his estranged five-year-old son Sam. When Ali lands a job as a bouncer in a nearby nightclub, things quickly start to look up for the itinerant father and son. Then one night, after breaking up a
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Marion Cotillard
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Armand Verdure
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Celine Sallette
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Corinne Masiero
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Bouli Lanners
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Jean-Michel Correia
Richard -
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All Critics (155) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (127) | Rotten (28)
An emotionally gripping if slightly meandering drama marked by two powerful lead performances.
Top CriticThe movie wanders off course in the final act, as if none of its three screenwriters could quite figure out how to end it.
"Rust" has some lovely scenes - Alain carrying Stephanie out to the sea - but it seems to wander off in search of something it already has, and in wandering, it loses its way.
"Rust and Bone" has heart and soul.
"Rust and Bone" seems to wander unexpectedly into its heart; it feels organic in its casual unfolding, like life itself.
You couldn't ask for a more random relationship, but "Rust and Bone" slowly, almost magically, gives it meaning, symbolism, even a kind of symmetry.
It's a film for people who believe that fallen souls aren't inevitably destined to become lost ones.
...while all the admittedly well-wrought details engage us on an intellectual level and keep us watching, the film doesn't linger in the imagination the way truly great cinema does
there is no denying the cinematic power of Audiard's fearless storytelling
Rust and Bone is a tough, emotionally raw movie, but its not a difficult watch, and its a very skillfully rendered piece of neo-realism.
The notion of strings-free sex gets a good working over from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet), who takes as much pride in exploring the workings of Stephanie's troubled mind as he does in digitally removing her legs.
The film achieves what all dramatic films should strive for: complete audience empathy for the main characters. I cared for these two so deeply, and the many, many moments of quiet triumph gave me rushes of joy. A beautiful triumph of precision.
Rust and Bone is an unsentimentally lyrical triumph, unexpected in every way.
For a film that deals in different forms of agony it's rather pleasant. A portrait of family that's refreshing with the right emotional punch.
Pulsates with life, romance, and bare-knuckle boxing
This multi-layered film with its characters tossed like flotsam on fate's giant, unpredictable waves drenches us in the intimate details of characters
Two damaged souls find solace together in this gritty drama in which physical pain and disfigurement play a key role ... a stunningly delivered exposition
Audiard crafts a film with logical scenic construction yet surprising turns of events, with the drama never devolving into melodrama.
Rather like a persuasive pick-up artist, I'm not sure Rust & Bone is a film I'd want to spend a second night with, for fear of shattering the emotional illusion.
A 'Salt of the Earth' saga plumbing the depths of the human soul.
Through restraint, French director Jacques Audiard does a better job of tugging on viewers' hearts than most filmmakers can achieve with excess.
Filmmaking this self-indulgent screams "refund" in any language.
In 'Rust and Bone,' Marion Cotillard loses both legs but retains her hotness. This might seem like an inappropriate observation, but it's very much to the point of this very physical French romance of redemptive suffering from director Jacques Audiard.
This is a very different film to Audiard's most recent release - the impressive A Prophet - but it has a similar sense of maturity about it, and could well have acting awards aplenty heading its way in the coming months.
The strength of director Jacques Audiard's film is that he refuses to elicit pity from the audience for his protagonists.
Audience Reviews for De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone)
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- Ali: In a human hand there are 27 bones. Some apes have more. A gorilla has 32, five in each thumb. A human has 27. If you break an arm or a leg, the bone grows back together by calcification. It will be stronger than before. If you break a bone in your hand, it will never recover completely. Before every fight, you'll think. In each slap, you'll think. You'll be careful. But at some point the pain will come back. Like needles. Like glass splinters.
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- Stephanie: Can't a whore train whales?
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- Stephanie: Can't a whore train whales?
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- Stephanie: If we continue we have to do it right.
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- Stephanie: What am I for you?
- Stephanie: A friend?
- Stephanie: A pal?
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Foreign Titles
- Des Geschmack von Rost und Knochen (DE)
- Rust and Bone (UK)
