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Ain't Them Bodies Saints
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In Theaters August 16th, 2013
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© 2013 IFC Films
Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck) and Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara), an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration. Set against the backdrop of 1970's Texas Hill Country, director David Lowery paints a poetic picture, evoking the mythology of westerns and saturating the dramatic space with an aching sense of loss. Featuring powerful performances by Affleck, Mara as well as Ben Foster and Keith Carradine, AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS is a story of love, motherhood, and searching for peace while faced with an unrelenting past.
Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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The feel of the movie is intimate and handmade, as if Lowery were renewing, lovingly and poignantly, the landscape's ruined landmarks and infusing them with his own memories and dreams.
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 08.19.2013 -
It is not a large film. But Lowery may well be a large talent, and he sure knows how to cast the right actors.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 08.29.2013 -
The tone never changes. Scenes aren't inflected, and when the end comes, it registers, but without much impact.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 08.22.2013 -
The characters are too ordinary to care deeply for and the story doesn't add up to much, but Lowery has made a shrine to his actors, to the land through which they move, and to the kind of cinema that once sustained us.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe, 08.22.2013
