‘Bones and All’ Film Review: Timothee Chalamet Makes Sparks Fly and People Die in Cannibal Road Movie
thewrap.comtoo seriously. Reunite “Call Me By Your Name” players Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg for a new coming-of-age film? Great!
Make it a cannibal road movie with over-the-top gore — that’ll show the hoi polloi. But it turns out that the joke’s on Guadagnino — because at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, the audience ate “Bones and All” up.
One could easily see why. Genuinely frightening in stretches and with the creep-o-meter jacked up to 1000 all the way through, “Bones and All” is somehow more and less than a simple horror flick, and not quite a rambling romance.
Though adapted by David Kajganich from Camille DeAngelis’ novel, Guadagnino’s film instead feels more like a bet, a mad science experiment to see if “Raw” can coexist with “Badlands” in the body of a gooey Young Adult love tale.
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