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Bones and All will amplify the cult of Timothée Chalamet in grimy tale of young lovers-Sabrina Barr-Entertainment – Metro
It might not be as sickening as you imagine – but the film is still grim enough.
Sparks fly when Timothée Chalamet’s character Lee arrives (Picture: MGM)
Here’s something to sink your teeth into: Timothée Chalamet reunites with director Luca Guadagnino in Bones and All, a grimy tale of young lovers based on Camille DeAngelis’ 2015 novel.
Last time they worked together, the result was Call Me By Your Name, the super-sensitive tale of a young teenage boy’s sexual awakening. But the most that ever got bitten into was a juicy peach. This time, it’s a little different.
Set in the 1980s, all across the Midwest, Chalamet’s character Lee doesn’t make an appearance initially. The focus is Maren (Taylor Russell).
In the first scene, she’s hanging with some female friends when, without warning, she chomps down on her friend’s finger, stripping it of skin. Her father swiftly forces them to flee, fearful of the authorities, but even he soon abandons her.
Maren isn’t the only one with these cannibal tendencies. She meets the creepy Sully (Mark Rylance), who senses that she’s just like him. “We’re dangerous for non-eaters,” he warns.
Then she encounters Lee, and the sparks fly. He too has the need to feed on flesh, and soon they’re inseparable, like a bloodthirsty Bonnie and Clyde.
The Call Me By Your Name actor oozes charisma (Picture: MGM)
Taylor Russell’s Maren is forced to flee (Picture: MGM)
With his hair dyed red, Chalamet oozes sex appeal and charisma, though credit should also go to Taylor Russell (who won Best Young Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival). It takes two to tango, and these two should be on Strictly.
Rylance’s fey performance is the film’s weak point, along with a slightly meandering narrative that even Guadagnino (who took Best Director in Venice) has no answers for.
The pair become inseparable (Picture: MGM)
Mark Rylance stars as the creepy Sully (Picture: MGM)
For the squeamish, Bones and All isn’t quite the sickening horror you might imagine. But, be warned, it’s grim enough.
A film about companionship, abandonment, and reckoning with your roots, it’s rough, raw and not entirely perfect. But it will only amplify the already sizeable cult of Timothée Chalamet.
Bones and All screens at the BFI London Film Festival on October 8 and October 9.
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