Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Bob and Ruth are happily married couple until the husband is taken to prison after involving in criminal activities. Years after Ruth gives birth to their first daughter, Bob manages to break out of the cells to reunite with his family.
18 November 1979, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
27 February 1971, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
29 October 1980, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
12 August 1975, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
June 19, 2016
It's one of the best films of the year, and its shrugging Malick comparisons should be taken with a grain of salt - particularly for those of us whose admiration of the man is held with some reservation and qualification.
December 12, 2015
There's a good deal to be excited for in Ain't Them Bodies Saints; with another couple films under his belt, hopefully Lowery can develop a more unique voice and make a Badlands of his very own.
August 29, 2013
A lyrical modern Western that casts a contemporary but un-jaded eye on the romantic mythology of outlaw couples.
April 28, 2015
Please stop it with the goddammed chicks twirling through fields of sun-dappled what already.
August 29, 2013
Lowery has a lyrical style of storytelling that is delicate and subtle yet suffused with emotion and atmosphere. It's gentle and pointed at the same time.
August 29, 2013
This Sundance-sanctioned, love-on-the-run melodrama is indie filmmaking of a deliberately timeless sort.
August 29, 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.
August 29, 2013
Writer-director David Lowery strains for poetry at every turn, and only the strain registers.
February 12, 2016
... the cinematic answer to an outlaw folk song.
February 28, 2015
Lowery's beautiful Ain't Them Bodies Saints is about sometimes letting go of who you are for a second chance to be who you to want to be.
September 04, 2013
A slow, banjo-string-tight thriller ... Bodies gets under your skin and stays there.
September 03, 2015
Director Lowery, in only his second film, offers us a fine modern-day interpretation of classic Terrence Malick.
