| Cast |
Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners |
| Director |
Jacques Audiard |
| Screenplay | Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Craig Davidson |
| Music | Alexandre Desplat |
| Cinematography | Stéphane Fontaine |
| Editing | Juliette Welfling |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| SA distributor | Independent |
| Made in | 2012 |
| Produced by | A consortium of European companies |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Moderate, infrequent, subtitled, in context |
| Nudity | Low to mild, brief, infrequent |
| Sex | Moderate to strong, fairly frequent, simulated, implied |
| Violence | Moderate to strong, infrequent, bloody |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | Innocuous, infrequent |
| Comments | This film contains themes of human tragedy, family relations, unemployment, love, trauma, hunger, poverty, family responsibilities, fatherhood, and loneliness. These are mature and complex themes that are treated in a way that may be unsuitable to children under the age of 16. The film also contains fairly frequent sex scenes and strong violence that may be disturbing, distressing or upsetting for children under the age of 16. |
| These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines. | |
| Suggested age limit 17 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
Violence |
Sex |
Language |
Consumerism |
Drinking, drugs, smoking |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Box Office James Rocchi  Honest but never cruel, and striving for redemption while showing what agonizing work that takes, Rust and Bone is a must-see drama that will reward moviegoers who are both smart enough to seek it out and grown-up enough to take it. | 18 |  |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Writer-director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) probes the psyches of two people in crisis His hypnotic film means to shake you, and does. Schoenaerts reveals unexpected layers in Ali. And Cotillard delivers a tour de force of unleashed emotions. She's astonishing. | 15 | |
| Metacritic.com 39 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 155 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer | 16 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 15 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation | 20 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 26303 Netizens Great film in a special way | 15 | |
Average .. 81% | 16 | |