Time

Rust and Bone: The Love Story of Two Cripples

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 ...
Time

'Rust and Bone': Marion Cotillard and Oscar Mania

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 ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

'Rust and Bone' is an unlikely but fine romance

Matthias Schoenaerts and Marion Cotillard in "Rust and Bone." Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a tough guy, both inside and out. At least, he acts as if he is. So tough that he gets into street fights ...
The Arts Desk

Rust and Bone

The winner of Best Film at the 2012 London Film Festival features an extraordinary but not unbelievable premise. Matthias Schoenaerts (pictured below right with Armand Verdure) plays Ali, a man who ...