David Lowery: Bob Muldoon

Bob Muldoon: The outlaw romance "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" is a lyrical, sepia-toned folk tale, awash in 1970s filmmaking and the kind of stylized folksiness that pickling Brooklyn hipsters with handlebar moustaches will positively drool over. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. But it also, in every moment, bears an unmistakable sense of artful pretense that drains "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" of the naturalism it aspires to. There's plenty Terrence Malick-like magic-hour photography and after Affleck's Bob Muldoon is imprisoned a number of poignant love letters between Muldoon and Mara's Ruth Guthrie read aloud for old-timey effect. This film image released by IFC Films shows Ben Foster in a scene from "Ain't Them Bodies Saints." AP Photo/IFC Films It deserves some of that drool: David Lowery's film, starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as entwined, young Texas bandits in the '70s, is an elegiac tone poem, beautifully shot by cinematographer Bradford Young, memorably scored with strings and handclaps by Daniel Hart and enlivened by a distinct rhythm unusual for such a well-trod genre. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.