Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Genre: Crime / Romance
Duration: 96 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: David Lowery
Stars: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara and Ben Foster
IMDb score:
6,4 (23.645)
Releasedate: 3 July 2013
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Ain't Them Bodies Saints plot
The story of young bandit Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck). Bob escapes from prison and travels through the Texas countryside to reunite with his wife Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara) and his daughter whom he has never seen. Along the way, however, the past begins to catch up with him.
Actors and actresses
Ruth Guthrie
Bob Muldoon
Patrick Wheeler
Skerritt
Sylvie Guthrie
Sylvie Guthrie
Sweetie
Cowboy Hat
Bear
Sissy
Reviews & comments
Sergio Leone
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- 4430 messages
- 3110 votes
Meh.
Pretty promising start, but what follows is something very close to dullness. Tension is almost completely absent and what you do have is a melodramatic quest by both man and woman. The ending could be stolen from me.
A strong role is played by Rooney Mara, someone with a truckload of charisma. Casey Affleck on the other hand… phew. Good as a silly bit part, but otherwise he's just too boring for a part like this, he also has such a terribly lame voice.
Visually, the film is otherwise still attractive. It feels a bit like Malick, although in that case it is always a matter of making sure that it doesn't get too floaty. Ain't them Bodies Saints doesn't have that much trouble with that, but it can't hold back anywhere either.
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Ferdydurke
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- 1353 messages
- 854 votes
Well, let me tell you about something
Let me tell you about the future
In the future I'm a very old man
and I'm standing in the doorway
We're in a house
It's our house, somewhere far away from here
where everything is green and the sun is almost set
Lowery knows how to highlight that pathos, that poetic longing... with his film. This indeed resembles what Malick does in a number of his later films, but Bob and Ruth are very far removed from the nihilism and total alienation of the protagonists in Badlands.
What Bob lives and fights for is precisely a place in the world for him and his loved ones, and whether that desire is in vain or not doesn't really matter to its essence. This is in contrast to, for example, the love in Altman's Thieves Like Us, which eventually disappears from the face of the earth, as if it had never been there.
- Tell me more about that house
It's big, maybe a farm
It's old
It's older than us
At the same time it feels like maybe I built it
Malick and Altman are my favorites, but this Lowery can also be added.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
At first glance, a standard runaway crook who wants to be reunited with his family. The plot is somewhat different because Lowery tries to put different stresses in it. No specific reunion with, at least just disregarding the ending, but it was not a happy or lasting reunion .
The film's problem, however, seems to me to be the lack of tension. There will be no real manhunt and the attempts at reunification get bogged down in endless and pointless dialogues with secondary characters. The film starts promising, but doesn't really get off the starting blocks, I think. It has nothing to do with the slowness of the film. I was just missing something fundamental, something that would suck me into the movie.
Still an extra compliment for the atmosphere and the feeling that the film gave about the sultry South, although it is sometimes very thick.
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