Luca Guadagnino’s young cannibals coming of age and in love drama “Bones and All,” starring Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell, premiered at the Venice Film Festival last night to a ten-minute standing ovation.
In fact, the reaction was overwhelming enough it delayed the beginning of the evening’s next competition film.
The story follows two young drifters who meet and join together for a thousand-mile odyssey across the back roads of the 1980s United States to escape terrifying pasts to determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
Reviews for the title have started to be released with the film sitting at a 95% (8.0/10) on Rotten Tomatoes and a 72/100 on Metacritic. Praise is high for the film regarding its romance elements and especially for Russell’s performance.
Meanwhile, Chalamet has made headlines for an answer he gave at the film’s press conference and the challenges facing the youth of today. He said:
“To be young now is to be intensely judged. It was a relief to play characters who are wrestling with an internal dilemma absent the ability to go on Reddit or Twitter or Instagram or TikTok and figure out where they fit in.
Without casting judgment on that, because if you can find your tribe there, then all the power. But I think it’s tough to be alive now. I think societal collapse is in the air, it smells like it, and without being pretentious, I hope that’s why these movies matter because that’s the role of the artist is to shine a light on what’s going on.”
MGM holds domestic and international distribution rights to the film, which is set to get a wide theatrical release on November 23rd.
Source: Variety
