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Bones and All
Directed by
Luca Guadagnino
Produced by Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Marco Morabito, David Kajganich, Lorenzo Mieli, Timothée Chalamet, Peter Spears, Gabriele Moratti, and Theresa Park
Screenplay by David Kajganich Based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis
Produced by Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Marco Morabito, David Kajganich, Lorenzo Mieli, Timothée Chalamet, Peter Spears, Gabriele Moratti, and Theresa Park
Screenplay by David Kajganich Based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis
With:
Kendle Coffey, Taylor Russell, André Holland, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon Green, Jessica Harper, Chloë Sevigny, Janelle Kerns, Anna Cobb, Jake Horowitz, and Kendle Coffey
Cinematography:
Arseni Khachaturan
Editing: Marco Costa
Music: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Editing: Marco Costa
Music: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Runtime:
131 min
Release Date: 23 November 2022
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 23 November 2022
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
Luca Guadagnino and Timothée Chalamet, the director and star of Call Me by Your Name (2017), reunite for this 1980s period teen cannibal romance road picture. Taylor Russell (Waves) plays a high schooler who starts to act on flesh-eating impulses so she's removed from her school and town and then abandoned by her father. Travelling on her own to try to locate her mother, she quickly discovers she's not the only "eater" in the world. The movie blends elements of the Young Adult Terminal Illness drama (just without the terminal part) with the vampire movie (sans any actual vampires) and the lovers-on-the-run genre (though these lovers aren’t exactly running from anything even though they leave a trail of bodies in their wake).
I guess this film had to be set in the 1980s or else someone would have noticed all the disappearing and dead people left in the wake of these two sexy, emaciated beasts. Actually, since 80% of the characters in this movie are mass murderers who kill frequently, I think it would really need to have been set in the 1880s to be credible. But, of course, there were no teenagers back then. Bones and All would have worked far better if Chalamet had been the only star in the film. But in addition to him, Russell is constantly meeting up with characters played terribly by famous faces, starting with an ill-conceived turn by Mark Rylance playing a role that would (outside of Harry Dean Stanton) have been far more effective if played by a talented unknown. Why all the famous supporting players when this movie gets made on Chalamet's name alone? Probably a lack of confidence in the source material by the 50-year-old director. This project all but requires the youthful energy and perspective of a twenty-something filmmaker.
I guess this film had to be set in the 1980s or else someone would have noticed all the disappearing and dead people left in the wake of these two sexy, emaciated beasts. Actually, since 80% of the characters in this movie are mass murderers who kill frequently, I think it would really need to have been set in the 1880s to be credible. But, of course, there were no teenagers back then. Bones and All would have worked far better if Chalamet had been the only star in the film. But in addition to him, Russell is constantly meeting up with characters played terribly by famous faces, starting with an ill-conceived turn by Mark Rylance playing a role that would (outside of Harry Dean Stanton) have been far more effective if played by a talented unknown. Why all the famous supporting players when this movie gets made on Chalamet's name alone? Probably a lack of confidence in the source material by the 50-year-old director. This project all but requires the youthful energy and perspective of a twenty-something filmmaker.