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Bones And All, which is an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis‘s novel of the same name, follows a flesh-hungry young Timothée Chalamet who falls for fellow cannibal, played by Canadian actress Taylor Russel (Waves, Escape Room). The coming-of-age road trip drama sees the pair on the run through a Ronald Reagan-era America, in a film that really has it all (including lots and lots of blood splatters).
People are not ready for how sexy Timothee Chalamet is in BONES & ALL. However sexy you’ve found him in other movies/real life, multiply it by 50. I was sweating in the theater during one scene, and not like the AC needed to be a lower but like “yoo what’re we doing after this?!”
— Matt Dougherty (@dr_dougherty) September 29, 2022
The movie premiered earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival, receiving a ten-minute standing ovation. Alongside the two leads, the cast features the likes of Mark Rylance, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese and Chloë Sevigny.
“There is something about the disenfranchised, about people living on the margins of society, that I am drawn toward and touched by. I want to see where the possibilities lie for them, enmeshed within the impossibility they face,” Guadagnino said in a statement.
Kind of can’t stop thinking about BONES AND ALL. One of the best of the year. Somehow playful, tender, romantic, and fucking disturbing at the same time. Really really beautiful film. pic.twitter.com/RsqqS9UAvm
— Sydney🚀 (@sydthekid2430) September 29, 2022
“The movie is for me a meditation on who I am and how I can overcome what I feel, especially if it is something I cannot control in myself. And lastly, and most importantly, when will I be able to find myself in the gaze of the other?”
Bones And All is due out in cinemas this November, catch the trailer below.