marcosaguado What a remarkable performance! Marion Cotillard as an actress, as an artist goes as far here as very few actresses have gone before - Total and utter truth no matter how wrenching - Maria Falconetti in The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, Anna Magnani in Bellissima and very few others, now, for me, Marion Cotillard in Rust And Bone belongs right up there among the sublime. Here I should be commenting on the film and my comment is all about her because Rust And Bone is her, Marion Cotillard. Her co-star, totally new to me, Matthias Schoenaerts, is superb as the handsome, unwitting agent provocateur. Not to be missed.

Ironically Unimpressed Does the third act feel unfocused and scattered? Holy hell, does it!Overall, does the film push a little too hard on the sentimentality? It sure does, shamelessly at times.Does it suffer from minor inconsistencies and a couple of narrative plateaus the omission of which would have resulted in a shorter, more taut outcome? That would be another resounding "YES!".Do any of the above shortcomings ultimately matter? Hell, no, Rust and Bone is freaking stunning!And this coming from me, the person who dislikes both emotional manipulation AND Matthias Schoenaerts. Double whammy yet it still manages a very worthy 4 stars.Cheers for this Audiard, you're a good 'un, mate.

cricket crockett What goes around comes around. Life does not always provide poetic justice, which is why screenwriters such as RUST AND BONE's Jacques Audiard (who also directed) and Thomas Bidegain must ladle it in. Americans especially enjoy seeing nature killers such as BONE's Stephanie (Marion Cotillard) get their just desserts, which is why Gary Larson, artist of the Far Side comic strip, got so much mileage out of showing those whitetails turning rifles on hunters in the backwoods (or in the city, for that matter, such as the Gun-Deer lying in wait outside a McDonald's restaurant, saying to his human season shotgun buddy, "I've heard that they hang out here."). It would have been easy for Audiard Et Al to have shown Stephanie slowly sloshing down that slippery slope toward complicity in helping the Sea World conglomerate to commit the closest thing to genocide possible in the zoo world. Instead, early on, it's suddenly "off with her legs," making her an apt human counterpart to the Orcan individuals she'd habitually abused. After watching BLACKFISH and RUST & BONE, why don't you complete your Long John Silver's trilogy with THE COVE? Bon Appetit!

Heather I just cannot get this film out of my head. It touched me so deeply and I'm still trying to figure out why. It seems to me that it's a film which is almost impossible to define. I feel unable to do it any justice because it is so much more than the sum of its parts( but don't misunderstand me, its parts are v good) It is so subtle and complex that individual viewers will take very different things from it. Whatever else it may be though, it was in my view, one of the most convincing and touching love stories I've ever seen on screen. Top notch performances. Not an easy watch by any means, but so rewarding. What I admire most is the absolute refusal to resort to sentimentality. We feel what we feel, without manipulation. The minute it finished I wanted to watch it all over again and having done so I feel I am only just getting to grips with the many levels the film works on and its message/s. Even after several viewings certain aspects of it still puzzle me, but in a good way. Highly intelligent film making.