Writer/director Jacques Audiard enjoys subverting clichés. He places them in original settings and twists them by playing it straight. There’s the ex-con love story of Read My Lips, the torn pianist at the center of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, and–my favorite–the classic prison saga, A Prophet. Each film is tinged with crime elements, and they seem to take pride in highlighting previously unexplored careers (A Prophet is more unexplored culture). Rust and Bone continues Audiard’s style of approaching the predictable in unpredictable ways. Continue reading
Shooting the Script 