![]() With his dirty dyed hair and vaguely androgynous fashion choices, what red-blooded human snacker wouldn’t fall under his spell? She then meets Lee, a whippet-thin vagabond played with familiar lank by Guadagnino veteran Timothée Chalamet. The two had been living peripatetically, packing up and leaving town in a hurry every time Maren devoured (or attempted to devour) a babysitter or a classmate. She’s long been under the care of her father, but her uncontrollable eating habits have finally scared him off. Taylor Russell, who first broke out on the festival circuit a few years ago in the overstyled melodrama Waves, plays Maren, 18 and alone. ![]() This is, despite its gruesome premise, perhaps the Italian director’s most straightforward work yet, an alternately plodding and engrossing YA road movie given a dab or two of art-house lacquer. Whatever thematic intention lies at the heart of Bones and All, Guadagnino keeps it at a distance. Or maybe the whole eating people thing is serving a simpler purpose, illustrating the common adolescent feeling that no one understands you until one magical peer does. Is there some sort of queer metaphor in there? Maybe. They are in fact fine young cannibals, forced into nomadic existence by an urge whose name dare not be spoken in civilized society. ![]() For the wee lovers at the center of Luca Guadagnino’s new film, Bones and All, that last part isn’t meant euphemistically. ![]() Your body changes your emotions surge and consume you have an insatiable lust for human flesh. ![]()
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