Jacques Audiard’s “Rust and Bone” won the Star of London for film Saturday night at the 56th BFI London Film Festival‘s awards ceremony at Banqueting Hall in Whitehall. The fest introduced separate ...

This is not a storybook love affair. He's a coarse, violent, uneducated guy who treats dogs like objects, his son like a dog and women like conveniences. His only skill - his only joy -- seems to be ...

Rust and Bone's soundtrack features Bon Iver, "Love Shack" by the B-52s, and Katy Perry's "Firework." Such contrivances are rivaled only by the film's implausible premise: A driven trainer of orcas ...

*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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

can be chilly. The camera is unflinching and unapologetic, whether capturing images of great beauty or gritty realism. It must be so, in order to temper the film’s steaming-hot plot melodramatics. It ...

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 ...

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If you heard the basic concept for Rust & Bone and assumed it was just another “wounded person learns to heal” drama, you’d be partly right. But not likely in the way you were thinking. The focus is ...

"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 ...

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 ...