Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell in a scene from ‘Bones and All’ | Photo Credit: Prime Video
Timothée Chalamet charmed audiences in his film debut as Elio Perlman, bicycling through Luca Guadagnino’s Italian countryside. call me by your name; A sensual gay love story set in the early 80s. Now, the actor-director duo is reuniting again to tell a homoerotic tale set in the wastelands of Ronald Reagan’s America, and this time it looks like cannibal fantasies limited to sets.
Maren Yearly (Taylor Russell) is busy grappling with the social hierarchy at her high school and trying to tame her irresistible urge to gorge on human flesh in defiance of her father, Frank Yearly’s (Andre Holland) rules. Is. Maren, in her efforts to integrate with people her age, finds herself admiring a girl’s manicure at a friend’s sleepover; He gently puts the girl’s finger in her mouth, and in a moment of weakness, bites her leaving a trail of blood as she rushes back home to inform her father about the tragedy. Maren is an “Eater”, a being who inherits an appetite for human flesh from his family’s bloodline, and in this case, it is the curse of his absent mother that plagues Maren’s life.
Bones and All (English)
Director: Luca Guadagnino
mould: Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloe Sevigny, Andre Holland
runtime: 150 minutes
Story: Love blossoms between a young woman on the fringes of society and a disadvantaged drifter as they embark on a 3,000-mile odyssey through the back roads of America
While her father is protective and helps Maran escape the police, he grows increasingly tired of her antics and leaves her to fend for herself on the morning of her eighteenth birthday with a cassette tape explaining the reasons for her heroism. has been explained. As Maren embarks on a journey in search of her mother through several rural towns, we are introduced to other eaters like Sully (Mark Rylance), who enjoy feasting in the back alleys of a conservative America.
In the parking lot of a convenience store, Maren meets Lee (Timothée Chalamet), thanks to her enhanced sense of smell, a foodie who helps her locate her own kind. While taking a break to feast on fresh dead bodies, the two set out in search of Maren’s mother.
Luca Guadagnino invites viewers to consider the interactions between queer people living in an America where heterosexuality languishes in the countryside. In an effort to visually investigate human consciousness, he sometimes gets lost in his beautifully shot vast American landscape. His attempt to turn cannibalism into a metaphor for mental illness is interesting, but it oversimplifies elements of the myriad topics he seeks to address in a few hours.
While Guadagnino seems enthusiastic in serving up a socio-political commentary, he is blind to the issue of race; He treats Maran, a black teenager searching for his mother, and Lee – a white boy who was forced to leave his family behind – in a similar fashion, and in the process drives a wedge between the audience and the characters. is born. This dissonance is made worse when the film, breaking any rules for the sake of its world-building, begins to take itself too seriously and comes across as pretentious.
But the actors take you back inside; Taylor is superb as the shy teenager who doesn’t hesitate to gorge on the human body, and Timothée complements his character with his oversized jeans and red streaks in his hair, framed by beautiful landscapes through the lens of Arseny Khachaturian. Against are vividly captured.
Based on Camille DeAngelis’ book of the same name, the 150-minute film stays true to the themes of its source material and ‘makes a convincing case for extending its love and sympathy to two frustrated teenagers trapped in a wrecked car on the streets of Makes 80s America.
Bones and All is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video