Jacques Audiard

Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os) Region 2: Blu-ray | DVD Directed by Jacques Audiard Written by Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain (screenplay) based on a story by Craig Davidson Starring: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure Sony Pictures Classic Rated R | 120 Minutes Release Date: Nov 23, 2012 (USA) I think I remember the /film podcast really talking up Jaques Audiard previous film, A Prophet, and I even remember seeing the trailer numerous times in the theaters, but...Read Full Story

Every so often, and an all-too-rare often it is, a film strides onto the screens that isn’t a movie, a picture, a flick, or a film.  It’s cinema, and that sounds so pretentious, but other than calling it ‘filmed literature’ I’m not sure how to distinguish Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone from everything else out there.  Indeed, a piece of cinema like this leaves you feeling as satisfied as when you put down a novel that has gripped you from page one and kept you turning the pages until the...Read Full Story

Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone didn't get an Oscars nod when the nominees were announced Thursday despite garnering critical raves. Rust and Bone is the story of Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) and Stephanie (Marion Cotillard). Ali, a hard-around-the-edges bouncer, meets Stephanie, a young woman of fluctuating moods who works with killer whales at a Sea World-like venue, after she gets roughed up a bar. He brings the scraped-knee Stephanie home, who, not long after suffers a tragic accident in...Read Full Story

Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone didn't get an Oscars nod when the nominees were announced Thursday despite garnering critical raves. Rust and Bone is the story of Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) and Stephanie (Marion Cotillard). Ali, a hard-around-the-edges bouncer, meets Stephanie, a young woman of fluctuating moods who works with killer whales at a Sea World-like venue, after she gets roughed up a bar. He brings the scraped-knee Stephanie home, who, not long after suffers a tragic accident in...Read Full Story

Rust and Bone is the new film from French director Jacques Audiard, who a few years back gave us the excellent A Prophet. It tells the story of Ali (Bullhead’s Matthias Schoenaerts,) a man who, along with his young son, moves from Belgium to France to live with his sister and find work. It is clear from the opening scenes as he collects the scraps of others’ leftover food to feed his son that this is a man incapable of properly raising a child. Once in France, he begins working as a security...Read Full Story