Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Directed by David Lowery
Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, 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.
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This all fits nicely into Lowery’s eclectic filmography, which started with Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and has proven wildly unpredictable as he veers from esoteric art films like the ethereal A Ghost Story to Disney remakes like Pete’s Dragon with Robert Redford.
Similarly, those with deeper knowledge will recognize the themes with which writer/director Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) plays.
David Lowery, the writer-director of “The Green Knight,” has an impressive and impressively varied filmography: “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” (2013), “Pete’s Dragon” (2016), “A Ghost Story” (2017), “The Old Man and the Gun” (2018).
The film is the latest from writer-director David Lowery, the American indie darling who has proved himself a versatile and unpredictable filmmaker, alternating between leftfield dramas like Ain't Them Bodies Saints and A Ghost Story and more amiable or commercial films like The Old Man & The Gun and Pete's Dragon that have nevertheless been infused with a certain amount of alternative charm.
Throughout his career, Lowery has moved between more straightforward commercial works (Disney’s Pete’s Dragon remake , The Old Man & the Gun ) and artsier fare ( Ain’t Them Bodies Saints , the terrific A Ghost Story ).
Filmmaker David Lowery ( A Ghost Story , Ain’t Them Bodies Saints ) reinvigorates the lore with his sumptuous vision of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , a sprawling 2,500-line chivalric romance with a single surviving manuscript from an anonymous author.
The director is also surrounded by accomplished technicians, including cinematographer Bradford Young, whose beautifully controlled visual style elevated the likes of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and A Most Violent Year .
Cinematographer Bradford Young (2013's " Ain't Them Bodies Saints ") captures each frame as if it was his last, dripping with inquisitive scope and a wise understanding that the expressiveness of faces can be every bit as breathtaking as an imposing vista.
With "A Ghost Story," David Lowery, whose big-screen resume includes "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," provides an adult summer movie that shuns cheap tricks and instead offers a full-submersion baptism into heavy themes: loss, legacy, and our ongoing desire for meaning and connection.
Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara reunite with their 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' director David Lowery in a poetic meditation on time, memory and spiritual connection that is utterly true to its title.
His down-South crime story, "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" (which also starred Mara and Affleck) was compelling whenever it stopped trying so hard to copy Terrence Malick.
As with Lowery’s first pairing of Affleck and Mara, 2013’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints , a Texan crime romance with echoes of Badlands , the comparisons with Malick are apt again here: in the spirit of The Tree Of Life , A Ghost Story is both deeply intimate and vast in scope, bridging years, then centuries, before looping back on itself.
His spiritual godfather is Terrence Malick, as evidenced in Lowery’s last personal film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, an atmospheric tale of a bank robber and his girlfriend drenched in backwoods Southern ambience.
Directed and written by David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon), it was also one of the most acclaimed films of the festival.
What's worse, this is the work of director David Lowery, whose "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" was one of the ...gems of 2013.