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Rust and Bone
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJacques Audiard
Screenplay by
  • Jacques Audiard
  • Thomas Bidegain
Produced by
  • Jacques Audiard
  • Martine Cassinelli
  • Pascal Caucheteux
Starring
CinematographyStéphane Fontaine
Edited byJuliette Welfling
Production
company
Why Not Productions
Distributed by
Release date
  • 17 May 2012 (2012-05-17)
Running time
120 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Belgium
LanguageFrench
Budget€ 15.4 million
Box office$17,243,678[1]

Rust and Bone (Template:Lang-fr) is a 2012 French-Belgian film directed by Jacques Audiard, starring Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts, based on Craig Davidson's short story collection with the same name. It tells the story of an unemployed 25-year-old man who falls in love with a killer whale trainer.[2] The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and received positive early reviews.[3][4] It has also been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Golden Globes, two BAFTA Awards and nine César Awards.

Plot

Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) in his mid 20s, an unemployed father to a young son, Sam (Armand Verdure) arrives in Antibes, southern France, to look for work. Having no money, he crashes with his sister Anna (Corinne Masiero) who already has her own share of problems with money and temporary employment.

Ali gets a job as a bouncer in a night club but still keeps his passion burning for kick boxing. On a usual evening in the night club, Ali meets Stéphanie (Marion Cotillard) and escorts her safely to her home after she is injured in a brawl at the club. She works at a local marine tourist park where she suffers a tragic accident during a show and wakes up in the hospital to realize that her legs have been amputated. Ali meets a guy at work who informs him about a kick boxing fixture he can make money from. Stéphanie, now in a wheelchair, is terminally depressed and gives Ali a call. Ali visits her and takes her to a beach where they swim. Over a period of time, Ali and Stéphanie spend a lot of time together and get involved in casual sex every now and then, while Ali hooks up with other women as well, being honest about it with Stéphanie. Stéphanie starts to accompany Ali to the kick boxing matches and a symbiosis forms between them. Stéphanie starts to feel better about herself in Ali's company and gets artificial limbs. She starts to walk again and even manages Ali's bets for kick boxing. Ali, Stéphanie and some friends visit the same night club where Ali used to work. Ali goes to the dance floor and flirts with a girl as Stéphanie watches curiously. Ali goes away with the girl leaving a dejected Stéphanie with other friends. Anna is fired from her job as the higher management comes to know of her taking home expired food products. Anna blames Ali for this as Ali was involved in an odd job where he installed spy cameras in work areas at the direction of the management to spy on the activities of their employees. This results in a standoff between Ali and Anna's partner and Ali leaves. Sam stays with Anna while Ali goes to a training facility for kick boxers in a distant place and loses touch with Stéphanie. Sam visits Ali at his facility for a day and both are shown playing on a frozen lake. A weak spot on the frozen lake cracks and Sam falls into the lake, loses consciousness and floats on. Ali takes a while to realize that Sam is nowhere to be seen. Once he spots Sam under the frozen lake, Ali releases a desperate volley of punches to break the surface and gets an unconscious Sam out. In the process, Ali fractures his hands.

Sam survives and in the hospital Ali breaks down while talking to Stéphanie on the phone and confesses his love for her after realizing that he had been cold and insensitive to her all this time. As the film closes, Ali is shown to have gone professional in kick-boxing as Sam and Stephanie stand by him in what looks like a post-fight victory ceremony.

Cast

Production

The film was produced by Why Not Productions for 15.4 million euro.[5] It was co-produced with France 2 Cinéma, Page 114 and the Belgian company Les Films du Fleuve. Filming started on 4 October 2011 and lasted eight weeks. Locations were used Antibes, Cannes, Belgium, Paris, northern France, and Warsaw.[2] To prepare for the role, Cotillard took swimming lessons and spent a week at Marineland to learn how to direct whales.[6] Explaining how the team adjusted to Stephanie having no legs, Cotillard told: "When we did the first costume fitting, we had to try those pants that were empty of my legs and I had to fold my legs in the wheelchair. That image was so powerful that we kept it throughout the movie. And also we worked with amazing CGI guys."[7]

Release

Marion Cotillard, Jacques Audiard, and Matthias Schoenaerts at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

The film premiered on 17 May 2012 in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.[8] It was released in France and Belgium through UGC Distribution the same day.[9] StudioCanal UK acquired the British distribution rights,[2] and the film was released in the UK on 2 November 2012. It opened in the United States on 23 November 2012.[10]

Critical reception

The film was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and received early positive critical reactions. HitFix praised Audiard "for the way he takes melodramatic convention and bends it to his own particular sensibility, delivering a powerful tale about the reminders we all carry of the pains that have formed us" and found Cotillard's work "incredible, nuanced and real".[11] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film a four-star rating out of five, writing Rust and Bone is "a passionate and moving love story which surges out of the screen like a flood tide" and "its candour and force are matched by the commitment and intelligence of its two leading players".[12] Time's Mary Corliss found that the romance is "sometimes engrossing, sometimes exasperating" and that the cinematography recalls Kings Row and An Affair to Remember. Corliss also wrote, "Schoenaerts exudes masculinity that is both effortless and troubled" while "Cotillard demonstrates again her eerie ability to write complex feelings on her face, as if from the inside, without grandstanding her emotions" and added, "her strong, subtle performance is gloriously winning on its own".[13] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune thought Schoenaerts' sensitive-brute instincts recall Marlon Brando and Tom Hardy.[14] Critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times called the film "a strong, emotionally replete experience, and also a tour de force of directorial button pushing."[15] Roger Ebert, who did not review the film upon its original release, later added it to his "Great Films" series.

Awards and nominations

List of accolades
Award / Film Festival Category Recipient(s) Result
Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Jacques Audiard Nominated
César Awards[16] Best Film Jacques Audiard Pending
Best Director Jacques Audiard Pending
Best Actress Marion Cotillard Pending
Most Promising Actor Matthias Schoenaerts Pending
Best Adapted Screenplay Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain Pending
Best Original Score Alexandre Desplat Pending
Best Cinematoghaphy Stéphane Fontaine Pending
Best Editing Juliette Welfling Pending
Best Sound Pending
AACTA Awards[17] Best International Actress Marion Cotillard Pending
BFI London Film Festival Best Film Jacques Audiard Won
British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actress in a leading Role Marion Cotillard Pending
Best Film Not in the English Language Pending
Broadcast Film Critics Association[18] Best Actress Marion Cotillard Pending
Best Foreign Language Film Pending
Cabourg Romantic Film Festival Best Film (Meilleur film) Jacques Audiard Won
Chicago Film Critics Association[19] Best Foreign-Language Film Pending
Golden Globe Awards[20] Best Foreign Language Film Rust and Bone Nominated
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Marion Cotillard Nominated
Goya Awards[21] Best European Film Pending
Hollywood Film Festival[22] Best Actress of the Year Marion Cotillard Won
Houston Film Critics Society[23][24] Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Independent Spirit Awards[25] Best International Film Rust and Bone Pending
London Film Critics' Circle[26] Foreign Language Film of the Year Rust and Bone Pending
Technical Achievement Award Alexandre Desplat (music) Pending
Magritte Awards[27] Best Actor Matthias Schoenaerts Nominated
Best Foreign Co-Production Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Bouli Lanners Won
Screen Actors Guild Awards[28] Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Marion Cotillard Nominated
Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion Marion Cotillard Won
Valladolid International Film Festival Best Actor Matthias Schoenaerts Won
Best Director Jacques Audiard Won
Best Screenplay Craig Davidson, Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards[29] Best Actress Marion Cotillard Nominated
Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
World Soundtrack Awards Soundtrack Composer of the Year Alexandre Desplat Nominated

See also

References

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  3. ^ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
  4. ^ "Cannes Film Festival 2012 line-up announced". timeout. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
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  6. ^ Hohenadel, Kristin (16 November 2012). "Wrestling a New Role Into Its Full Rebirth". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  7. ^ Topel, Fred (19 November 2012). "The Cinema Of My Country: Marion Cotillard on Rust and Bone". CraveOnline. AtomicOnline. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  8. ^ "Screenings guide" (PDF). festival-cannes.fr. Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  9. ^ "De rouille et d'os". AlloCiné (in French). Tiger Global. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  10. ^ "Rust & Bone". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  11. ^ McWeeny, Drew (May 17, 2012). "Review: Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts devastate in Audiard's 'Rust and Bone'". HitFix. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  12. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (17 May 2012). "Cannes 2012: Rust and Bone – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  13. ^ Corliss, Mary (17 May 2012). "Rust and Bone: The Love Story of Two Cripples". Time. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  14. ^ Phillips, Michael (17 May 2012). "Cannes 2012, Day 2: 'Rust and Bone,' with Marion Cotillard, gets early notice". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  15. ^ Scott, A. O. (November 22, 2012). "Damaged Souls, Trying to Heal, Learning to Survive". The New York Times. Retrieved January 3, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  16. ^ César 2013: Liste Officielle Nominations 2013
  17. ^ Garry, Maddox (9 January 2013). "Jackman, Kidman up for AACTA awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  18. ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (11 December 2012). "'Lincoln' Leads Critics' Choice Movie Awards Nominees With Record-Setting 13 Mentions". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  19. ^ ""The Master" rules 2012 CFCA Awards with 10 Nominations". Chicago Film Critics Association. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  20. ^ Olsen, Mark (13 December 2012). "Golden Globe nominations 2013: Foreign category flies to France". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  21. ^ Sarda, Juan (8 January 2013). "Blancanieves leads Spanish Goya nominations". Screen International. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  22. ^ Feinberg, Scott (20 September 2012). "Hollywood Film Awards to Honor 'Rust and Bone' Actress Marion Cotillard (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
  23. ^ Lodge, Guy (16 December 2012). "'Lincoln' leads Houston Film Critics nods". HitFix. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  24. ^ "2012 Houston Film Critics Nominees - Winners". Texasartfilm.com. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  25. ^ Kilday, Gregg (27 November 2012). "'Silver Linings Playbook,' 'Moonrise Kingdom' Dominate Independent Spirit Awards Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
  26. ^ "33rd CRITICS' CIRCLE FILM AWARDS NOMINATIONS". London Film Critics' Circle. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  27. ^ Leurquin, Anne-Sophie (February 2, 2013). "Quatre Magritte pour « A perdre la raison »". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved February 3, 2013.
  28. ^ Keegan, Rebecca (13 December 2012). "SAG Awards 2013: 'Lincoln,' 'Argo' nods add clarity for Oscars". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  29. ^ Tapley, Kristopher (10 December 2012). "'Lincoln' leads Washington DC Area film critics nominations, 'Zero Dark Thirty' wins". HitFix. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
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