Directed by Luca Guadagnino, “Bones And All” follows the American road trip of two young cannibals. In the leading role, Timothée Chalamet has never been so disturbing. The film is available on Prime Video.
In cinema, the road trip is a genre in its own right. There are hundreds of films that feature heroes crossing a country in a car, but a cannibalistic road trip is a first. With Bones and All, director Luca Guadagnino reunites with Timothée Chalamet six years after Call Me by Your Name – which earned the actor an Oscar nomination.
Cannibal road trip
Here, it’s still about romance, but a little bloodier. The story opens with Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman who flees her family home when she feels her cannibalistic urges take over. On her journey, she will meet a stranger her age, Lee (Timothée Chalamet), who shares with her an incompressible taste for human flesh.
At once romantic, disturbing and extremely violent, Bones And All offers a unique journey into America in the 1980s when AIDS makes its appearance. Luca Guadagnino offers a sensory film and allows Timothée Chalamet to play a character very different from his previous roles.
Sensitive souls refrain
This thriller, adapted from the Camille DeAngelis novel, opens the door to a whole mythology about cannibals. They recognize each other by smell and have a rule not to eat each other. Among the “eaters” – the other term for cannibals – there is Sully, a strange stranger, played by the terrifying Mark Rylance, who carries around a long braid in his bag.
Bones And All is not for the faint of heart and certainly not for those who cannot stand the sight of blood. It is nonetheless a real experience to be had on screen.
Bones And All is available on Prime Video.
