So far, so derivative, but it's helmed by Oscar -
nominated Bullhead director Michaël R. Roskam based on a screenplay by Dennis Lehane (the man behind Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone) and Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace star.
If you've seen him as the hormonally jacked cattle breeder in the Oscar -
nominated Bullhead (2011), or the oddly tender underground fighter in Rust and Bone (2012), or the Brooklyn thug giving Tom Hardy mad tsuris in The Drop (2014), you know what we're talking about here.
He bulked up to obscene proportions to play a steroid - addicted cattle farmer in Michaël R. Roskam's Oscar -
nominated Bullhead, and hit the gym and the junk food once more to play Ali, a single father and mixed - martial - arts fighter gone to seed on the Côte D'Azur, in Jacques Audiard's art - house sensation Rust and Bone.
Not exact matches
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).
But yeah, most everyone else is focused on the Oscars, and just in time for some last minute cramming for your Oscar pools comes two more
nominated films: Chico and Rita, a hand - drawn musical from Spain
nominated for Best Animated Feature, opens at the Seven Gables (John Hartl reviews it for The Seattle Times), and
Bullhead, the Belgian drama
nominated for Best Foreign Language Feature, opens at The Uptown.
Rust and Bone, directed and co-written by Jacques Audiard (writer / director of Oscar
nominated, «A Prophet») depicts the slowly developing love story of Stephanie (Marion Cotillard, «The Dark Knight Rises») and Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts, «
Bullhead») who, despite being an unlikely pairing, form a bond through tragedy and life's misfortunes.
Audiard is back with «Rust and Bone,» a star vehicle for Oscar - winning Marion Cotillard («La Vie en Rose») and Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts, who came to new visibility by starring in this year's Oscar -
nominated «
Bullhead.»
«The Oscar
nominated film
Bullhead from Belgium director Michael Roskam is the latest product coming through the festival.»
Director Michaël R. Roskam helmed the Oscar -
nominated picture for Best Foreign Language Film
Bullhead before being invited to join the Academy in June 2012.
Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his own short story, and directed by Michael R. Roskam, who first gained attention in 2011 with his Oscar -
nominated film «
Bullhead,» «The Drop» also boasts an excellent international cast led by Tom Hardy.
THE DROP is a new crime drama from Michaël R. Roskam, the Academy Award -
nominated director of
BULLHEAD.
A phenomenal cast, including Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), leads this gritty crime thriller from writer Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) and director Michaël R. Roskam, writer / director of the Oscar ® -
Nominated film
Bullhead *.