Rust and Bone

Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone followed A Prophet — the 2009 Cannes Grand Prix winner that had cemented Audiard's standing as one of France's most powerful working directors — and reunited him with his regular co-writer Thomas Bidegain. Adapted from two stories in Craig Davidson's 2005 short-fiction collection of the same name (a Canadian cult book), the film moved the action from Davidson's Niagara setting to the south of France, mostly shot around Antibes, Cap d'Antibes and Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts play the leads. The film earned Cotillard a Golden Globe nomination, won the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language, and received nine César nominations including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Cotillard) and Best Supporting Actor (Schoenaerts), winning Most Promising Actor for the latter. It also competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2012, in a year ultimately won by Haneke's Amour.

Cinematography is by Stéphane Fontaine, Audiard's regular collaborator (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Prophet, Dheepan); the score is by Alexandre Desplat. The orca sequences were shot at Marineland Antibes, an animal park that closed permanently in early 2025 amid French legislation banning cetacean captivity — making the film's images now functionally a historical document of an institution that no longer exists.