Synopsis
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
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Cast
- Marion CotillardStéphanie
- Matthias SchoenaertsAlain 'Ali' van Versch
- Armand VerdureSam
- Céline SalletteLouise
- Corinne MasieroAnna
- Bouli LannersMartial
- Jean-Michel CorreiaRichard
- Yannick ChoiratSimon
- Mourad FraremaFoued
- Fred MenutBoss of ELP Sécurité
Recommendations
- 90
Movieline
Physically it is a kick in the teeth, a depiction of poverty, sex and violence which crosses most known codes of acceptability. - 80
The Guardian
What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. - 80
Time
Sometimes engrossing, sometimes exasperating romance. In these scenes, Cotillard shows she doesn't need the validation of Cannes or the Academy. Her strong, subtle performance is gloriously winning on its own. - 80
Time Out
Lyrical touches and the most moving use ever of Katy Perry's "Firework" almost cancel out a cheap-shot third-act tragedy, yet it's the actors that save the film from soaping itself into Euro-miserablist irrelevance. - 75
The A.V. Club
Both actors are tremendous - especially Schoenaerts. - 75
Rolling Stone
Writer-director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) probes the psyches of two people in crisis. His hypnotic film means to shake you, and does. Schoenaerts reveals unexpected layers in Ali. And Cotillard delivers a tour de force of unleashed emotions. She's astonishing. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Absorbing if somewhat predictable in its dramatic trajectory, Jacques Audiard's follow-up to his powerhouse prison yarn "A Prophet" benefits from unvarnished, forthright performances from Marion Cotillard and Bullhead hunk Matthias Schoenaerts, as well as from the utterly convincing representation of the former's paraplegic state. - 70
Variety
A tender yet heavily de-romanticized love story between a boxer with broken hands and an orca trainer with missing legs, Rust and Bone serves as an impressive if somewhat overblown exercise in contrasts.
