Palo y hueso (Stick and Bone) is a 1968 Argentine film directed by Nicolás Sarquís and starring Héctor da Rosa and Miguel Ligero.

[3] As with all his films, Palo y hueso demonstrates Sarquis' enormous vocation for themes rooted in a microworld of men and women, creating tense narratives with the rigorous quality of epics.

The film's realist approach shows the influence of Sarquis' teacher Fernando Birri, who had won several international awards.

[13] However, Sarquís' later film La muerte de Sebastián Arache (1977) was recognized as a major work based on the strength of its images and the poetic sense conveyed in the movie.

Austere sets, bare dialogues and a simple drama underline the tensions linking the three characters whose lack of perspective is perceptible".

The reviewer went on to detect the influence of filmmakers such as Alain Robbe-Grillet or Marguerite Duras, but felt that the tight psychological characterization, disciplined acting and stark sets were more reminiscent of Kenji Mizoguchi or Satyajit Ray.