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Rust & Bone
After winning the Grand Jury Prize with A Prophet, Jacques Audiard is back to compete with his feature Rust & Bone (De rouille et d'os) in 2012 Cannes Film Festival starring Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts. Written by Audiard with ...

Marion Cotillard

French actress and singer Marion Cotillard was born in 1975. She garnered critical acclaim for her roles in films such as My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996), Taxi (1998), Furia (1999), Jeux d'enfants (2003), Big Fish (2003), A Very Long Engagement (2004, for which she received a César Award for Best Supporting Actress), A Good Year (2006), the biopic La Vie en Rose (2007, she stars as the French singer Édith Piaf, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress, César for Best Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Actress in Musical or a Comedy), Public Enemies (2009), Nine (2009), and Inception (2010).

Jacques Audiard

French director and screenwriter Jacques Audiard was born in 1952. Son of notable screenwriter and director Michel, at the beginning of the 1980s he successfully began screenwriting, including Deadly Circuit, Réveillon chez Bob, All Mixed Up, Saxo, Frequent Death, and Baxter. In 1994, he directed his first feature See How They Fall (Regarde les hommes tomber), starring Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Two years later he reunited with Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant on his second feature A Self-Made Hero (Un héros très discret), adapted from the eponymous novel by Jean-François Deniau. His third film Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres) starred Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Devos; The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté) received 10 nominations at the Césars and won eight, among them the awards for best film, best director, best screenplay, best film music, and best cinematography. In 2009 The Prophet won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, won 9 Césars and was a nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.

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Life in the flesh: Rust & Bone

After winning the Grand Jury Prize with A Prophet, Jacques Audiard is back to compete with his feature Rust & Bone (De rouille et d'os) in 2012 Cannes Film Festival starring Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts. Written by Audiard with Thomas Bidegain, the movie is a very free adaptation of two short stories by Canadian writer and amateur boxer Craig Davidson. It is easy to see why Jacques Audiard was so keen to base a film on it: Davidson's prose is precise and carnal. It conjures up images, a brutality tempered by harmony, a darkness broken by frequent recourse to the absurd or to irony. And, above all, Davidson delivers characters who lead "Life in the Flesh" (the title of one of his short stories); outcasts who fight against the fate befalling them. "Ali and Stéphanie are characters from times of crisis, from a society that has become slightly barbaric, where people eat from the rubbish," said Audiard. "There is nothing left to sell but bodies and violence. And the character played by Matthias has no words, he has physical strength. I have a problem with filming violence: I hate it, but I always come back to it. The plan was for it to be as realistic as possible, but not too gory, because the female character was watching it. She admires courage, but doesn't like violence that much."

Alessandro Zoppo

Plot:

Ali suddenly finds himself in charge of Sam, his 5 years old son that he barely knows. Penniless and without friends, he leaves the north of France to seek shelter at his sister's in Antibes. Even though she and her husband do not have much money, they make a room for them in their garage and take care of Sam. Ali finds work as a bouncer at a local nightclub. After diffusing a fight one evening, he meets Stephanie a beautiful, self-confident woman. He takes her home and leaves her his number. But she is a princess and he is a poor fellow. Stephanie is a killer whale trainer at the local Marineland. After a terrible accident one day, Ali gets an unexpected phone call from Stephanie. When he sees her again she is crammed into a wheelchair. She has lost both her legs and her dreams. Ali will share genuine moments with her, without pity, and help her to live again...

Genres: Drama

Country: France, Belgium (2012)

Release Date: 04-10-2012 (Italia) 17-05-2012 (Francia)

Director: Jacques Audiard

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