Bones and All, Luca Guadagnin’s horror romance, adapted from the novel by Camille DeAngelis, is a love story bathed in blood spilled during the cannibal protagonists’ feeding times.
For some critics, it;s one of the year’s best films, for others (“Variety”), one of the worst!
We are in the middle, worth seeing for the perfrmance of Chamet, but also repetitive and pretentious.
Our Grade: B- (**1/2* out of *****)
Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell in ‘Bones and All.’
Luca Guadagnin’s horror romance, adapted from the novel by Camille DeAngelis, is a love story bathed in blood spilled during the cannibal protagonists’ feeding times.
The Italian director also tries–mostly unsuccessfully–for poetic touches, lush sensuality and emotional depth.
Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet play the drifters on a cross-country road trip, feasting whenever they can, “bones and all,” on human flesh.
Separating and reuniting, they find a home in each other and attempt to live a normal life, until the past — in the form of Mark Rylance — catches up with them in a shattering final act.
Guadagnino cites Terrence Malick’s stunning debut Badlands of 1973 as an influence.
Bones and All (2022): Guadagnino’s Horror Romance, Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell
Bones and All, Luca Guadagnin’s horror romance, adapted from the novel by Camille DeAngelis, is a love story bathed in blood spilled during the cannibal protagonists’ feeding times.
For some critics, it;s one of the year’s best films, for others (“Variety”), one of the worst!
We are in the middle, worth seeing for the perfrmance of Chamet, but also repetitive and pretentious.
Our Grade: B- (**1/2* out of *****)
Yannis Drakoulidis/MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection
Luca Guadagnin’s horror romance, adapted from the novel by Camille DeAngelis, is a love story bathed in blood spilled during the cannibal protagonists’ feeding times.
The Italian director also tries–mostly unsuccessfully–for poetic touches, lush sensuality and emotional depth.
Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet play the drifters on a cross-country road trip, feasting whenever they can, “bones and all,” on human flesh.
Separating and reuniting, they find a home in each other and attempt to live a normal life, until the past — in the form of Mark Rylance — catches up with them in a shattering final act.
Guadagnino cites Terrence Malick’s stunning debut Badlands of 1973 as an influence.