Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

eryui Now this is a really dramatic movie.It tells the story of two people, very different, a man becomes numb, a woman deeper and more sensitive. Fighting against their dramatic odds, events, they learn and became a support each other, stand up and slowly find their way to make things work within their rust and broken bones bodies and life.The actors are good, the story slow pacing, extremely dramatic that touches difficult issues, but never boring and very well told, interesting and gripping. Hard and dry as it is used by the director Jacques Audiard.A film by the harsh colors with positive implications.8/10

Armand a splendid movie. not ,only, for acting, image or genius of director but for its force. for the art to have roots in every day reality and in ordinary life of viewer. impressive, powerful, honest at whole. salted, cruel, delicate, speech about vulnerability and need of the other as existence support, a great opportunity to remind the amazing artistic possibilities of Marion Cotillard, it is a necessary film. for understand yourself, for see a magnificent manner to use silence as the most powerful speech, for explore levels of fragility and the subtle science to be part from the other. beautiful images, superb performance. and something else. the deep roots. because it is one of rare films who becomes part of yourself.

Rob_Taylor This movie has been recommended to me several times, so I thought I'd give it a watch. I have to say, I've spent two hours far more productively with my feet up on my desk and staring at my toenails.Rust and Bone tells the story of two damaged people that, in finding one another, heal themselves and go on with their lives.Except... that it doesn't. Whilst the male and female leads are damaged (she even before she suffers the loss of her legs), there is no noticeable character change in either of them. Oh... unless you count the sudden scene at the end - more later.The male is thuggish, boorish and uncaring almost to a sociopathic extreme. He feeds his child leftovers from strangers and barely seems to care about the boy.The woman is self-absorbed and dismissive of others, even calling her boyfriend "A small man" at one point early on when he is humiliated in his own home by the thug.Neither of them is remotely likable. He comes across as a dimwit. She as a narcissist.Then they meet. We are supposed to think there might be some chemistry between them but, frankly, I've seen more chemistry in a Christian Scientist's bathroom cabinet than these two conjure up. There's just nothing likable about either of them. They have sex. They discuss it in a horribly disinterested manner and basically agree to be each other's "friend-with-benefits".If there was any chemistry I was hoping to find, it was bleach. Bleach. Thrown into my eyes to prevent me from watching any more of these two's ludicrous antics. But it was not to be, so...I watched them heal each other. Or at least, I think that is what the story was aiming for. But it just fails dismally at this.After getting together, both people do not change in even the slightest. He is still a thuggish street-fighter. She is still a self-obsessed prima donna.The token concession to "everything-turning-out-alright-in-the-end" was the final scene, out of the blue. It shows the thug becoming a world champion martial artist whilst she stands by with the son by her side, his artful manager. A proper family unit at last! It is all ridiculously unbelievable and borderline insulting.I hate to say this, but if the two characters had been given an ounce more humanity, a smidgeon more personality, and made even slightly likable, then the film would have suceeded very well.Instead, the story focuses not on the relationship between the two, but on the two as individuals. It is utterly wrong. It's like someone asked Data from Star Trek to write a love story before he got the emotion chip!Don't get me wrong. I love foreign cinema. The original versions of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo are far superior to the Hollywood remake. Same with Let Me In. But this isn't in that league. Not even close.SUMMARY: Dull, focuses on individuals, not the relationship. Characters that won't grow on you no matter how much Baby-Bio you force feed them. If you are looking for a romantic drama, give this one a miss.

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!