Der Geschmack von Rost und Knochen (2012)
29KDer Geschmack von Rost und Knochen: Directed by Jacques Audiard. With Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette. Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
“I havenu0026#39;t seen a film from this director before, so in that respect I had no expectations. But I do love Cotillard, and since her break-out year n 2007 with La Vie En Rose sheu0026#39;s one of the ones I look forward to the most. I have liked her in mostly all of the American films I have seen her in, but her heavy accent is always what kinda holds her back a little. I think because English seems to come so difficult to her, it seems like her just talking calls attention to itself. So in that regard I was definitely interested in seeing her in a 2nd foreign-language film. I havenu0026#39;t seen many of the Oscar contenders, but she gives what is easily the best performance of the year so far. Here she pretty much lives her character, and there is not one false note in her entire performance. This is key because in the past, although she always has this fierce magnetism, she also is sometimes inconsistent in her recent American films. This reaffirms what I had thought of, that Cotilard just fits better in her native tongue. She can be melodramatic when she needs to play a melodramatic character (La Vie En Rose) and here she gives an acting performance thatu0026#39;s the polar opposite. Her many nuances make this is a fairly low-key performance, but Iu0026#39;ll be surprised if thereu0026#39;s anything bad to be said about her here, and thatu0026#39;s a testament to how well she just fits in it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs for the film itself, it was actually very good. Itu0026#39;s a film that I can already see myself reflecting on in the future. My only real complaint would be that the ending was perhaps a little bit too neat.”
