The key protagonist is poor country kid, Dylan (Ed Oxenbould), a self - sufficient tween - ager who lives with his emotionally distant father Jack (Sam Worthington) on the dusty outskirts of Walerup in the Western Australian hinterland. (screen-space.squarespace.com)
More damaging to his chances is the fact that González - Iñárritu climaxes and closes his film with Ryuichi Sakamoto's far - more - memorable «Bibo No Aozora,» written previously but which I will forevermore refer to as «Romance from Nympho Japanese Schoolgirl Being Embraced By Distant Father While Naked On Highrise Penthouse Deck.» (slantmagazine.com)
You have to give some credit to Jacques Audiard — who's otherwise taking a decisive step back from A Prophet — for going surprisingly easy on the figurative potential of a love story between Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), a whale trainer turned double - amputee after a rough day on the job, and Ali (Bullhead's Matthias Schoenaerts), a brutish security guard and distant father who moonlights as a back - alley boxer. (filmfreakcentral.net)