Rust & Bone is a tough and enormous film. It's hard to digest, and just as hard to shake, afterwards. Following the story of a brutish, alpha-boar, out-of-work boxer and his relationship with a woman who loses her legs in a killer whale accident, Rust & Bone is a film that, while never teetering into being completely overwrought about its central drama, is nonetheless affected by the inherent “ohmygod”-ness of that setup.
But, despite that, it's also deftly beautiful. It's so incredibly focused and precise in its depictions of the agonies of its two characters, that its story is at once affronting and completely heartbreaking. It's also desperately romantic, but achingly bleak about it. Tragic, without simple redemption. All those incomplete sentences of things. See it, be affected by it, suffer afterwards.
Screening Saturday 24 November Palace Centro Cinema, 2pm.
