Simply put, “Rust and Bone” is a touching, poetic story of people who’ve been dealt a bad hand in life. There’s no build-up to a climax, no twists and turns and no jaw-dropping end — this could be the ...

"I'm hungry," are the first words spoken in French director Jacques Audiard's tough-as-nails love story Rust and Bone. The line comes from a little boy named Sam whose apparently homeless father Ali ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Matthias Schoenaerts and Marion Cotillard in "Rust and Bone." Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a tough guy, both inside and out. At ...

A love story can devolve into tired cliches and sentimental dialogue, but Rust and Bone shirks the usual props and dives deep into a romantic tale you can’t help but adore. The bouncer (Matthias ...

When Marion Cotillard first read the script of French-language drama “Rust and Bone,” her character, Stephanie, was a mystery to her. Discovering the essence of an orca trainer who later experiences a ...

The two highest honors a filmmaker can receive are the Academy Award and Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. The Oscar has clout, the Palme d’Or éclat. Both signal peer recognition of jobs superbly ...

Rust and Bone is the movie you’ve likely heard about in which a whale eats trainer Marion Cotillard’s legs and she takes up with a brutal, emotionally cagey kickboxer played by Matthias Schoenaerts ...

For most of Rust and Bone, Marion Cotillard plays a legless woman. Though the corporeal deficiency is a hardship for the character, Stéphanie, an orca trainer whose limbs are amputated after she is ...

One of the most repellent phrases in the English language is “Oscar buzz.” The nattering about contenders for the Academy Awards begins more than a year before Oscar night, at Sundance; it balloons at ...

An impressive if somewhat overblown exercise in contrasts, starring "Bullhead" breakout Matthias Schoenaerts and French siren Marion Cotillard as a pair whose daily fight for survival all but ...

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