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ROUGH

Today's film was Jacques Audiard's*

De rouille et d'os / Rust and Bone (2012)

also a NYTimes Critics' Pick.

A totally unconventional melodrama which has an old theme, a boxing picture and a disability picture, rolled into one totally unique bundle.

I say this to just get the obvious out of the way.

The truth of the film is that two totally different people find each other and work through all the problems and difficulties that each of them face as individuals as well as how those hardships fall on the relationship.

There is some stunning acting by Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts.

The film and its symbols are all of a piece, even the Orca whale we see in the beginning of the film.

Sometimes the film is hard to sit through and every time it pays off.

There is something about formulas in film making that can open doors, to see the world in different ways, and, ultimately to see that for "all" of us, the world is very much the same. The formula fits.

The power of the film is worth taking in again and, I bet, again, so I will give this one a 5 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films