Bones and All had its premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival back in September and is set for theatrical release on November 23. Critic reviews have been positive, and the movie has already picked up some awards, attracting praise for its cast performances, cinematography, and fusion of genres. The two released trailers have done a great job of capturing both the sexy and scary aspects of the movie, but viewers are hungry for more. With much to look forward to, including a red-headed Chalamet, here’s everything we know about Bones and All so far.
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Bones and All centres on Maren (Russell) a teenage cannibal who is abandoned by her mother and goes searching for the father she has never known. Along the way, she meets the tall and mysterious Lee (Chalamet), a disenfranchised drifter who is also a cannibal. The two fall in love and embark on a 1000-mile odyssey through the backroads of Reagan-era America.
Bones and All is a coming-of-age romance horror all in one. It explores young women’s sexuality and the pain of family and first love, as well as cannibalism. The YA novel is pretty light on the latter, keeping its descriptions of cannibalism purposefully vague, but it looks like the movie might change that. Trailer one sees Chalamet covered in blood and beating someone with a crowbar — set to Leonard Cohen’s apt “You Want It Darker” — and trailer two sees Russell chomp down on a friend’s finger. Nevertheless, in an interview with Fantastic Man, Guadagnino teases the movie is “extremely romantic.”
Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell lead the star-studded ensemble cast as Lee and Maren. The actor of his generation, Chalamet previously starred in Guadagnino’s modern gay classic Call Me By Your Name, alongside Armie Hammer. Chalamet plays Elio, a teenager who falls in love with Hammer’s older Oliver. The movie is critically acclaimed, receiving several Academy Award nominations (and one win for Best Screenplay), including Best Actor for Chalamet. Chalamet’s other movies include Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Little Women, Interstellar, The King, and Dune. In 2023 he will play Willy Wonka in Paul King’s Wonka, a musical fantasy prequel to Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Taylor Russell is a rising star known for playing the lead role of Emily Williams in the A24 drama Waves, a role which won her the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor. This year she is nominated for Outstanding Lead Performance at the Gotham Awards for Bones and All. Russell has also starred in Escape Room, Words on Bathroom Walls, and Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets.
Joining Chalamet and Russell in Bones and All are several other exciting names:
Mark Rylance (The BFG, Bridge of Spies) Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name, Dopesick) André Holland (Moonlight, Passing) Chloë Sevigny (Kids, Boys Don’t Cry) David Gordon Green (director of the Halloween reboot trilogy) Jessica Harper (Phantom Of The Paradise, Suspiria) Jake Horowitz (The Vast of Night, Shut In) Anna Cobb (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair) Francesca Scorsese (We Are Who We Are)
Director Luca Guadagnino is a humanist known for his artful, affecting, and intimate movies, namely I Am Love, A Bigger Splash, Call Me By Your Name, and Suspiria, a remake of the 1977 Dario Argento horror classic. Call Me By Your Name, based on the André Aciman novel of the same name, is his most successful movie, and a sequel seemed to be in early development when Guadagnino began work on Bones and All. Ironically, around this time, Armie Hammer was also accused of being a cannibal, and the sequel was cast off indefinitely. Guadagnino has shut down rumors that Bones and All is related to the Hammer controversy.
David Kajganich, who wrote the screenplays for A Bigger Splash and Suspiria, returns as the screenwriter for Bones and All. Cinematography, which is one of the most enticing aspects of a Guadagnino movie, comes from Arseni Khachaturan, whose credits include City of the Sun, Beginning, This Is My Desire, and the upcoming HBO/A24 series The Idol. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails provide the music. The duo are famous for scoring many David Fincher movies, and have won Academy Awards for their work on The Social Network and Soul. Their original song for Bones and All, “(You Made it Feel Like) Home,” is nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award.
Bones and All is coming to cinemas soon on November 23. Early reviews of the movie are promising, with John Bleasdale of BFI calling it “wryly funny, gleefully entertaining and oddly touching,” and Isaac Feldberg of Inverse praising it as “an earnest romance that’s also a work of gauzy, poetic horror.”
Fans of Guadagnino will be pleased to know the director has other movies in the works, too. These include an Audrey Hepburn biopic, starring Rooney Mara (who was made for the part) in the lead role; a romantic sports comedy, starring Mike Faist and Zendaya; and a Scarface remake, which has been hotly anticipated for quite some time now.
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