7/1/2023 0 Comments Bones & all a novel reviews![]() Pairing rising talent Taylor Russell and risen star Timothee Chalamet in the roles of two misfits drifting across the American Midwest trying to make sense of what they are while quietly falling in love, Bones and All is essentially a romantic road movie Western a horror-tinged Bonnie and Clyde or Badlands in which frontiers are as much ethical and emotional as they are to do with purple hills on the horizon. ![]() But Guadagnino’s seventh feature is unlikely to remind most viewers of that, or any of the other hybrid horror dramas that have come our way since Let the Right One In. It’s true that Palme d’Or winning French director Julie Ducournau did something similar in her 2016 debut, Raw. ![]() The one joke in a film that takes the comma out of “Let’s eat, people!” is its planned US release date: 23 November, one day before Thanksgiving The Italian director has always liked to range from genre to drama and back again and, in his third collaboration with screenwriter David Kajganich (after A Bigger Splash and Suspiria), he pulls off the tricky task of smearing a tender story of a young girl’s search for love and guidance in blood, skin, cartilage and viscera so fresh we can practically taste them. ![]() If anyone is going to make a cannibal coming of age story work, it’s Luca Guadagnino. ![]()
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