'Bone and Everything' Review: Tyler Russell and Timothy Chalamet in Luca Guadagnino's Tender Cannibal Romance

The only other thing Maren’s father left behind was her birth certificate, prompting her to hit the road in search of her mother. (Kajganich changes the genders of the parental characters in the book.) Growing up believing that she is the only one of her kind, she meets the very approachable and disturbingly familiar Sully in Ohio, played by Mark Rylance, who maximizes Mark Rylance’s role, she was amazed, ridiculously cute and creepy at the same time. He said he recognized her scent from a mile away. The dying can provide food without killing. But after they shared the fresh meat and got together, Mullen sneaked away instead of accepting his company.

When she met another breeder, she preferred to stay closer to her own age, in Lee (Chalamet), Indiana. He puts on an aggressive stance (“When you call When the pounds are wet, you have to have a big attitude”) and be unapologetically pragmatic about the way he fulfills his needs. But when they start traveling together, including visiting his little sister (Anna Cobb) in Kentucky, he reveals a sweeter side that almost unwittingly creates romance.

Several key scenes surrounding this lean more towards traditional horror territory. One was meeting a hillbilly named Jack in Missouri (Michael Stuhlbarg, the other please call me by your name alumni) and his Ex-cop pal Brad (a rare role played by filmmaker David Gordon Green), during which an unspoken threat hangs in the air. The other is an interaction with the carnival worker (Jack Horowitz). Like the early Virginia scene with Mullen, this suggests an overlap between carnivorous and pansexuality, although Mullen remains morally opposed to destroying life despite the accidental discovery of the pain of strangers.

While not ischemic flow, and it’s a bit far-fetched to say cannibalism is handled, ahem, tasteful, gore-averse audiences are unlikely to be too irritated by these elements . That’s probably because Guadagnino makes an emotional horror movie. He’s far less interested in the shock factor than in the painful isolation of his young main characters and the life rafts they represent each other as they slowly let their guard down.

These aspects are represented by Russell and Chalamet with minimal public displays, but with a steady swelling under the skin – as the characters open up to each other about their past When traumatic, emotionally transparent, the chemistry between the two actors deepens, together in their endearing body language. Everything they do is light-hearted, unforced, and understated to subtle, stirring effect, and the filmmakers’ relentless sympathy for Mullen and Lee is infectious. It makes sense, one of the inspirations was the outlaw lovers of the badlands .