bONE AND ALL
Genre: youth-horror melodrama
Director: Luca Guadagnino. With Taylor Russel, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Kendle Coffey, André Holland, Ellie Parker, Madeleine Hall
The bones and all: A slang phrase for “full meal” gives the title to a film about two American teenagers condemned to live on the margins of society because they are cannibals.
Abandoned at eighteen by her father frightened by her urges, Maren struggles to come to terms with her own “nature”: the encounter with the elderly and disturbing Sully cruelly helps her to become aware of herself, while the one with the young Lee will make her discover love. But will they be able to control their anthropophagous impulses?
Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell in the film (photo Yannis Drakoulidis / Metro Goldwyn Meyer Pictures)
Guadagnino and his screenwriter David Kajganich start from the novel by Camille DeAngelis to tell the loneliness of those who feel “different” (remember the beautiful series We Are Who We Are?) in an America made up of loneliness and pain, where everyone is marked by a “lack” (Maren’s mother, Lee’s sister, the warmth of the family for both) and knows they have to resign themselves to a fate of marginalization ( the meeting with two of their kind, at night, in a meadow, in its distressing squalor explains their “condemnation” better than a thousand speeches).
A road movie that is also a training film, which knows how to avoid the temptations of splatter and offers a tension that remains under the skin.
For those who want a cinema that knows how to excite.
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