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Jacques Audiard's film isn't intended as a replacement for Toback's wild-eyed and masterly [Fingers], but rather a deliberately assured take on the same material.

The director is adept at confronting ordinary people with extraordinary situations to test their resilience.

Audiard has assembled a remarkable team of actors

Audiard captures the fluid nature of relationships for a younger generation navigating both on and offline opportunities and, because this is French, it also features plenty of gracefully worked sexual encounters.

An unlikely, but highly effective, marriage of arthouse and mainstream sensibilities.

The script avoids sentimentality. The performances offer little gratification to romantics.

Rust And Bone is the rarest of cinematic delights - poignant, provocative and profoundly visceral.

Phoenix gives his character more depth than such men are usually afforded but deliberately takes a back seat, allowing Reilly the dramatic lead role he has long deserved.