Running time: 131 minutes
Starring: Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Anna Cobb, André Holland
Directed by: Luca Guadagnino
The story: Abandoned by her father, a young woman meets a drifter and together they embark on a journey together across the country to find her mother.
The verdict: Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name is one of my favourite films of all time and so I went into this film with high expectations.
Happily, my expectations were more than met and possibly even exceeded. Bones and All is by no means the only film of its ilk and yet it felt incredibly unique. I came away with the feeling that I’d never seen a film quite like it before and even now it lingers.
Set in the eighties, Bones and All has a distinct look and feel. Shot on film in 35mm, the film looks timeless and beautiful. The location of the backroads of America adds to the tone and enhances the feeling of the characters’ isolation as the roads stretch out before them.
The performances are incredibly strong. Taylor Russell is great as a girl on the precipice of adulthood and Timothée Chalamet was brilliant as the drifter trying to show her the ways of the world. Mark Rylance managed to send shivers down my spine with his incredibly creepy performance and overall Bones and All had some of my favourite deliveries of lines in any release of this year.
Bones and All is definitely not a film for those weak of heart or of stomach. The film is pretty graphic and it is steeped in dark metaphors. Bones and All may have a romance at its centre but at its heart this is a film about the darker side of humankind and evil in it’s different forms. Bones and All explores morality, nature versus nurture, fate and the effect of trauma.
Bones and All is one of the most well put together and accomplished mishmashes of genres that I’ve ever seen. This film is a coming of age, a romance, a road trip movie, a horror and more besides. It is tragic, bloody, strange, evocative and it will make your skin crawl. Above that it is astoundingly good and I truly loved it.
The rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a half
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