Rust and Bone

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Rust and Bone is a film I had heard of but never thought to seek out. And there it was on Dvdigi so I gave it a try and I liked it. Marion Cotillard is great as usual (and looks so good) and Mathias Shoenaerts (who incidentally is also in The Drop) was good too. It is a story of people with real problems. And one of those which looks surreal on paper but is surprisingly believable on screen.

Alain is our male lead who takes his son (he is maybe 6-7 years) out of a small country in Europe to South France since his ex (and son's mother) uses him in drug trafficking. He meets his sister who lets them live in her house plus she helps him to find a job as a bouncer first then later as a security guard. He meets Stephanie who is a killer whale trainer at the Sea World in town, at the bar when she is mixed at a fight. He even takes her home where she lives with her boyfriend. He gives her his number casually and doesn't really expect her to call. And she does call after she lost half of her both legs at a killer whale accident. They first start to hang out and later become sex buddies (here sadly I think the sex scene was cut). Meanwhile Alain, a kickboxer fights at underground fights for money (although they are called underground fights, they are fought in open gardens of prive houses I guess).  Stephanie gets prosthetics and when Alain acts like an asshole she calls him out for this behaviour (she doesn't shy away or anything, she knows that they became more than sex buddies along the way and she doesn't care if she loses him or not because she will not take any shit whether in complete or half legs - kudos Stephanie!). The story continues and this film turned out to be good and just because the actors are good. A well told story.