Rust and Bone

[jenkins]

Probably once a day I think about the moment when she steps out of the car and he's on the ground, losing the fight. It's a brilliant, pure cinema moment.

I started this thread for pete.

[jenkins]

i'm a person who's interested in cinematic textures, and i find myself increasingly frustrated with monotoned movies. i find rust and bone exciting because of how nimbly it moves between its wide range of emotions. for example the movie's heartbeat is connections between people, but life currents damage the stability that comes from connections -- she loses her legs and profession, he's engaged in a flight forward. it makes sense that they'd be attracted to each other as like teammates. they're spiritual mirrors to each other.

and i like this movie's emotional fragility. audiard mostly avoids straining his narrative. i felt he was faithful to his characters, and that he avoided using narrative tools to fix their broken parts. when the fight scenes occurs (that i referenced in my first post), i realized the power she had in his life. it was an amazing moment for me, it was when the door opened and light flooded in. and this is achieved not through dialogue, but through cinematic grammar, through seeing her and seeing him respond. there isn't a scene in which they state what they mean to each other, but there's a scene that shows it. that's powerful cinematic stuff.

ultimately it's a melodrama. does he tie on a bow at the end? maybe. it might be like, too much. it kind of betrays its own ideology. but the emotional and narrative material of the ending finds its source from the beginning, and if perhaps the narrative dip into the honey jar, it's also true that the characters remain consistent.

[72teeth]

i dunno, i didnt see The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and id be suprised if i ever saw this.

i was really into Awakinings and Dr Sacks when i was littler, and i think the story of someone over coming Lethargica jaded me from enjoying the story of anyone overcoming any bio-hurdle ever.


it does look pretty tho and i do love whales, so i wouldnt mind eating any of those words

[pete]

it's not really about overcoming hurdles. neither was diving bell and the butterfly. that one was about accepting oneself, and this one is a bit grittier than that.

directed by Jacques Audiard (A Prophet), starring Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts

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.

[wilder]

Blu-ray on March 19th