Cannes 2012 Review: Jacques Audiard’s Raw, Emotional ‘Rust & Bone’

Jacques Audiard has quickly become one of my favorite directors. I first fell in love with his work a few years back seeing Un Prophete at Cannes (my review), which should’ve won the Palme d’Or. Audiard is back again this year with his follow-up called Rust & Bone (aka De rouille et d’os). This emotional drama tells of a melancholic love story between two lost souls, played by Matthias Schoenaerts (most recently seen in the Oscar nominated film Bullhead) and French actress Marion Cotillard (last in Inception, Midnight in Paris and Contagion). It’s openly raw and lascivious, but doesn’t quite reach the heights of Un Prophete. The film first introduces us to Ali, played by Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts, a phenomenal actor on the rise who is on his way to breaking out way beyond just Europe with performances like this. Ali doesn’t have much in his life besides his young …