Mubi is showing Jean-Charles Hue's Eat Your Bones exclusively May 16 - June 15, 2016.As befits a mélange of genre trappings and documentary contours, Jean-Charles Hue’s Eat Your Bones is riddled with elements chafing at each other—daybreak and dusk, reverent sermons and macho bluster, an outlaw’s perpetual flight and a community’s promise of stability. Opposites right out of a 1950s western, but the setting here is a Yeniche camp, a circle of trailers and tents on the rural periphery of French society. Introduced zipping across a battered meadow on the back of a motorcycle, the 19-year-old protagonist Jason (Jason François) faces a pair of imminent events: his upcoming baptism (“Christians can’t go wild,” he worries) and the return of his brother Fred (Frédéric Dorkel), fresh off a 15-year prison stint and starved for barbecue meat and nocturnal joyrides. (Their reunion is filmed from a low angle...
- 5/15/2016
- MUBI
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