FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Ain't Them Bodies Saints 

 A "malickesker" western, located in Texas of the 70s, with impressionistic interiors, naturalism and warm sunlight. A nice compliment for David Lowery's melancholic drama! Although he reminds us of the great role model in many ways, David Lowery's film works in its own powerful way. He knows how to use the familiar, but still strike his own note! Ain't Them Bodies Saints (uuuh, what a title) is the fairy tale of a young, yet doomed love. Casey Afflek plays Bob Muldoon, a small star. Bob is a dreamer, but a dangerous one who believes he must do everything he can to make his dreams come true. Bob is also a great romantic who wants to build a house in the wilderness for his family. Probably all this would have been possible before he got into conflict with the law. But right at the beginning his pregnant wife (embodied by Rooney Mara) leaves him. She plays her character with all her inner conflicts. A sad couple who are finally handcuffed and torn apart. Bob is imprisoned for 25 years, while his wife Ruth raises their daughter alone. Her neighbour: Keith Carradine, who seems to have emerged directly from one of the 70s film classics that Lowery used as a role model! His Skerritt is typical of Lowery's reserved staging, which gives us more blanks than details. Do we really know who Skerritt is and what he is looking for? Or the deputy Patrick Wheeler (Ben Foster), who approaches Ruth. Does he want to take her husband's place? Lowery takes his time, allows us long pauses between his action scenes. His pictures may seem nature-loving and robust on the one hand, but on the other hand they look like a dream. The only annoying thing is the crazy title, otherwise this is a western for those who don't like westerns at all.