Bones and All is an upcoming romantic drama film that is coming out this year. The film’s stars Hollywood’s darling and the next Leonardo DiCaprio – Timothee Chalemet and along with him the film stars Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Chloe Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg, Madeleine Hall and Jessica Harper. The film is directed by Luca Guadagnino with a screenplay from David Kajganich. The film is a an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ 2015 book of the same name. The film’s premise is absolutely outrageous and bold, “a story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter; a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.”
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a good romantic film and that is why I’ve stopped believing that this genre will ever be something I can grow fond of. I’ve loved Timothee Chalamet almost in everything that I’ve seen of him but since his perfect casting as Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi masterpiece Dune, which was in my opinion was the best film of 2021. However, that may just have been because I’m a huge fan of Frank Herbert’s Dune Novel series. So, from then I’m excited about almost anything that he is a part of. The film premiered in the 79th Venice Film Festival for a limited audience and the critics who got an opportunity to watch the film have given out their reviews.
Bones and All Reviews Roundup – Timothee Chalamet Turns the Horror Into Pleasure!
Keith Uhlich
Slant Magazine
“Both Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet are sadly at a disadvantage given how many of the older actors gnaw at the scenery like it’s a still-warm cadaver.”
Original Score: 2/4
Meagan Navarro
Bloody Disgusting
“Beneath the viscera and grue is a tender and affecting tale of first love and discovery. It’s as elegant as carnal and carnivorous, and it’ll take a bite out of your heart if you let it.”
Original Score: 4/5
Jonathan Romney
Guardian
“That the film is visually understated only makes it more disturbing …”
John Bleasdale
Sight & Sound
“It is wryly funny, gleefully entertaining and oddly touching. Delicious and nutritious.”
Tomris Laffly
RogerEbert.com
“Gritty, lush, sensual (this is Guadagnino after all) and deeply cinematic.”
Leah Greenblatt
Entertainment Weekly
“A born provocateur’s faithful ode to a classic cinematic genre, only with human gristle between its teeth.”
Original Score: B+
Justin Chang
Los Angeles Times
“There’s real pleasure in “Bones and All,” an insistent sweetness that somehow both nourishes and cleanses away the horror.”
Raphael Abraham
Financial Times
“An exquisite gothic romance in the tradition of Dracula and Frankenstein… It’s a queasy watch but it’s also unexpectedly thought-provoking and even touching.”
Original Score: 5/5
Stephanie Zacharek
TIME Magazine
“It’s so carefully made, and so lovely to look at, even at its grisliest, that it ends up seeming a little remote, rather than a movie that draws you close. Still, its actors give you something to watch every minute.”
Robbie Collin
Daily Telegraph (UK)
“Piercingly romantic and at times gruesome…”
Original Score: 4/5
Hannah Strong
Little White Lies
“It’s an imperfect but effortlessly charming film, one that feels lived-in and loved (shout out to the eclectic, youthful soundtrack and Elettra Simos’ expressive costume design) and speaks to the human desire to love and be loved, in spite of our flaws.”
Ben Croll
TheWrap
“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.”
David Rooney
Hollywood Reporter
“Guadagnino’s seemingly divergent interests in romance and horror have never come together quite so ideally as they do here, played out against a constantly moving canvas of small-town America.”
Owen Gleiberman
Variety
“Bones and All,” for all its Guignol showiness, is one of the sketchiest, emptiest, most meandering road movies in memory.”
Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
“It achieved the near-impossible task of transforming a preposterous B-movie premise about two flesh-eaters on the lam into a tender parable about the wounding intensity of first love.”
Original Score: 4/5
Richard Lawson
Vanity Fair
“Bones and All has its merits, but the film is only a decent side dish at the feast of Guadagnino. You’ll likely leave the theater still feeling hungry.”
Leila Latif
indieWire
“Bones & All is fundamentally a beautifully realized and devastating, tragic romance which at multiple moments would have Chekhov himself weeping as the trigger is pulled.”
Original Score: A-
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
“Bones And All is an extravagant and outrageous movie: scary, nasty and startling in its warped romantic idealism.”
Original Score: 5/5
Bones and All is slated to release in theatres near you on 23rd November 2022
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