Unlike his last live-action and somewhat somber film The Darjeeling Limited, this is a return to the youthful vigor and real emotion on display in Wes Anderson's earlier work.
While there are sincere moments of genuine heartfelt emotion, Rust & Bone cannot escape a sense of disjointedness that results from the cramming of several smaller narratives into the lives of two people.
Georges and Anne are a loving couple in their eighties, played with delicate humanity by Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva. One morning while preparing breakfast, Anne suffers a stroke, paralyzingly the right side of her body. Thus begins the ultimate test of the couple's love for one another,
Pablo Larraín has achieved something spectacularly unique with No, his beta-max rendition of the 1988 referendum vote in Chile concerning dictator Augusto Pinochet.
In David Cronenberg's adaptation of Cosmopolis, a novel by postmodern author Don DeLillo, the Canadian filmmaker tackles a dense criticism of capitalism, greed and class.
