Synopsis
Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.
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Cast
- Rooney MaraRuth Guthrie
- Casey AffleckBob Muldoon
- Ben FosterPatrick Wheeler
- Keith CarradineSkerritt
- Kennadie SmithSylvie Guthrie
- Jacklynn SmithSylvie Guthrie
- Nate ParkerSweetie
- Robert LongstreetCowboy Hat
- Charles BakerBear
- Augustine FrizzellSissy
Recommendations
- 100
The Guardian
The film is so singular, it's hard to place. At times, its elegiac visual quality evokes Terrence Malick, but Lowery's scripting is tighter and more accessible. His is truly a fresh voice, exhilarating to hear. - 91
The Playlist
Lowery is the real deal and understands filmmaking, and this is abundantly clear in this searing, romantic crime drama and love story. - 90
Village Voice
Lowery isn't a Malick and he's certainly no Kazan, but he's his own man, and a filmmaker to watch. - 80
Variety
Slow as molasses but every bit as rich. - 80
Film.com
The point of this film is the spell it weaves and, by and large, it is successful. It’s the music, it’s the cinematography, it’s the score, it’s Casey Affleck’s hollow speaking voice — they all add up to something that resembles a fever dream facsimile of an eventful movie. - 80
Time Out
It’s an unfailingly beautiful movie that finally stakes out a territory of its own, with quietly intense performances and a sure hand on the tiller (although the trio of bounty hunters who set out after Affleck feel like invaders from another movie, one more defined by genre than mood). - 75
Observer
David Lowery’s quietly beautiful new film, his most ambitious to date, is at first glance a standard love story, set in the American West of what appears to be the early 1970s. Over time, however, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints transcends its plot, revealing itself as a cinematic meditation on the daunting power of loneliness. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
For all its derivative poetics -- as many exteriors as possible were shot during or just after magic hour, a la Malick -- the film is a lovely thing to experience and possesses a measure of real power.
