It’s always fun and games until someone bites another person’s finger off.
To be fair, Maren — the young hero of Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, one half of its red-hot killer couple, our tour guide of ’80s Rust-Belt America and the role that officially confirms actor Taylor Russell as a best-of-generation contender — has sampled human flesh before. Her tastes first manifested themselves when she was three years old, we’re told, and her father (Andre Holland) has been shepherding Maren around from city to city, state to state ever since.
To be fair, Maren — the young hero of Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, one half of its red-hot killer couple, our tour guide of ’80s Rust-Belt America and the role that officially confirms actor Taylor Russell as a best-of-generation contender — has sampled human flesh before. Her tastes first manifested themselves when she was three years old, we’re told, and her father (Andre Holland) has been shepherding Maren around from city to city, state to state ever since.
- 11/21/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Luca Guadagnino's 2022 film "Bones and All," based on the 2016 novel by Camille DeAngelis, takes place in an undefined year, but appears to be set in the mid-1980s. It follows a young woman named Maren (Taylor Russell) who has always been driven by the strange compunction to eat raw human flesh. Her strange addiction forces her onto the lam where she encounters other itinerant cannibals, notably Lee (Timothée Chalamet) a young man who has been living on the road for many years. Being a cannibal affords one a spate of eerie superpowers, notably the ability to recognize other cannibals by their odor, or the ability to smell when someone is about to die.
The film is presented in lush, exquisitely detailed episodes set in the diners, gas stations, and trailer homes of the American Midwest. The story of "Bones and All" is communicated just as much through its photography as its script,...
The film is presented in lush, exquisitely detailed episodes set in the diners, gas stations, and trailer homes of the American Midwest. The story of "Bones and All" is communicated just as much through its photography as its script,...
- 11/17/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
It’s hard to imagine any filmmaker other than Luca Guadagnino directing an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’s “Bones and All,” but that was almost the case when screenwriter and producer David Kajganich first wrote the script.
“I was thinking of Luca when I was first reading the book, and it was impossible for him to engage at the time because of what else was on his schedule,” Kajganich tells Gold Derby during an exclusive video interview with Guadagnino and composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. “But it seemed like a really nice marriage between a lot of things that I know that Luca is interested in: the building of one’s identity, the managing and negotiating of one’s desires, all of the things that we’ve been in conversation about before. They were there in this book but in this very strange amalgam of tones. And so I...
“I was thinking of Luca when I was first reading the book, and it was impossible for him to engage at the time because of what else was on his schedule,” Kajganich tells Gold Derby during an exclusive video interview with Guadagnino and composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. “But it seemed like a really nice marriage between a lot of things that I know that Luca is interested in: the building of one’s identity, the managing and negotiating of one’s desires, all of the things that we’ve been in conversation about before. They were there in this book but in this very strange amalgam of tones. And so I...
- 11/17/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
To coincide with its placement as a top title at this year’s New York Film Festival, MGM and United Artists have released the first trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones & All,” the “Call Me By Your Name” filmmaker’s latest coming-of-age romance – only this time with a healthy dose of cannibalism.
Accompanied by the Leonard Cohen song “You Want It Darker,” the first trailer for “Bones & All” introduces audiences to the film’s central star-crossed couple, Lee (Timothee Chalamet) and Maren (Taylor Russell). “You don’t think I’m a bad person,” Lee asks Maren after a montage of footage shows off some of the film’s violent surprises and its all-star supporting cast – including Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloe Sevigny. “All I think is that I love you,” Maren replies.
“There is something about the disenfranchised, about people living on the margins of society, that...
Accompanied by the Leonard Cohen song “You Want It Darker,” the first trailer for “Bones & All” introduces audiences to the film’s central star-crossed couple, Lee (Timothee Chalamet) and Maren (Taylor Russell). “You don’t think I’m a bad person,” Lee asks Maren after a montage of footage shows off some of the film’s violent surprises and its all-star supporting cast – including Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloe Sevigny. “All I think is that I love you,” Maren replies.
“There is something about the disenfranchised, about people living on the margins of society, that...
- 9/29/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is continuing his streak of being one of the most masterful storytellers in the game with the heartwrenching coming-of-age horror romance, "Bones and All." The new film reunites Guadagnino with his "Call Me By Your Name" star Timothée Chalamet, who stars alongside Taylor Russell, in this harrowing tale of a pair of star-crossed lovers forced to live on the margins of society due to their shared cannibalistic tendencies. Based on Camille DeAngelis' novel of the same name, this romantic tale is also one of forbidden passion, as the two youngsters feel their uncontrollable desires to devour human flesh most powerfully when around the object of their affection. Not exactly an ideal situation for a budding couple.
Maren (Russell) and Lee (Chalamet) are able to find solace in one another over their shared condition, but as they fall deeper and deeper in love, the circumstances become more...
Maren (Russell) and Lee (Chalamet) are able to find solace in one another over their shared condition, but as they fall deeper and deeper in love, the circumstances become more...
- 9/29/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
You’d think the reunion of Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet and his “Call Me by Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino in “Bones and All” would be all anyone could talk about following the film’s premiere last weekend at Telluride and Venice.
Instead, the name on everyone’s lips is going to be Taylor Russell. The up-and-comer, who first gained prominence with her role in “Waves” (2019), takes center stage and devours every morsel of her time on screen. She brings grace and restraint, two qualities that don’t exactly spring to mind when you’re talking about a coming-of-age story about teen cannibals drawn together by mutual blood lust. I only wish I had more faith Oscar voters would give the movie its proper shake, as genre movies always face an uphill climb, no matter how well reviewed or beloved they are by critics and audiences.
On the last...
Instead, the name on everyone’s lips is going to be Taylor Russell. The up-and-comer, who first gained prominence with her role in “Waves” (2019), takes center stage and devours every morsel of her time on screen. She brings grace and restraint, two qualities that don’t exactly spring to mind when you’re talking about a coming-of-age story about teen cannibals drawn together by mutual blood lust. I only wish I had more faith Oscar voters would give the movie its proper shake, as genre movies always face an uphill climb, no matter how well reviewed or beloved they are by critics and audiences.
On the last...
- 9/6/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The story of boy-meets-girl is one that has been told in film throughout its lengthy history. Sometimes, these stories end in a happily ever after, while others end in tragedy. However, it's somewhat uncommon in the grand scheme of cinema that a love story can always have a prevailing sense of tragedy, even in the couple's happiest moments.
"Bones & All," the latest film by acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino, is one such love story. Starring "Waves" breakout Taylor Russell and Guadagnino collaborator Timothée Chalamet, this love story is about to have its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival. However, we won't be waiting too long for it to be released to the public. Here is what you need to know about this buzzy romance with a uniquely tragic twist.
Bones & All Release Date And Where You Can Watch It
Unlike his most recently released project, the 2020 HBO...
"Bones & All," the latest film by acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino, is one such love story. Starring "Waves" breakout Taylor Russell and Guadagnino collaborator Timothée Chalamet, this love story is about to have its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival. However, we won't be waiting too long for it to be released to the public. Here is what you need to know about this buzzy romance with a uniquely tragic twist.
Bones & All Release Date And Where You Can Watch It
Unlike his most recently released project, the 2020 HBO...
- 8/31/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
Watch Luca Guadagnino’s New 43-Minute Short Film for Zara Starring John C. Reilly, Alex Wolff & More
It’s become a holiday tradition almost as old as Christmas itself for a major brand to secure some top filmmaking talent for their latest ad campaign timed to the busy season of shopping. Zara has done just that, teaming with Luca Guadagnino (who is editing his latest film) for a 43-minute short film entitled O Night Divine.
Shot by Arseni Khachaturan (Beginning), written by Michael Mitnick (who previously teamed with the director on The Staggering Girl), and scored by Pedro Almodóvar’s frequent composer Alberto Iglesias, the cast includes John C. Reilly, Alex Wolff, Hailey Gates, Samia Benazzouz, Chloe Park, Valerio Santucci, Francesca Figus, Tania Hanyoung Park, and Shi Yang Shi.
The film takes place on a snowy Christmas Eve at a grand mountainside hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland, following five people’s lives who magically intersect to unlock a madcap night of outrageous adventures and joyous celebration. All...
Shot by Arseni Khachaturan (Beginning), written by Michael Mitnick (who previously teamed with the director on The Staggering Girl), and scored by Pedro Almodóvar’s frequent composer Alberto Iglesias, the cast includes John C. Reilly, Alex Wolff, Hailey Gates, Samia Benazzouz, Chloe Park, Valerio Santucci, Francesca Figus, Tania Hanyoung Park, and Shi Yang Shi.
The film takes place on a snowy Christmas Eve at a grand mountainside hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland, following five people’s lives who magically intersect to unlock a madcap night of outrageous adventures and joyous celebration. All...
- 12/14/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The lingering opening shot of “Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)” is a tangle of cords. Mofe (Jude Akuwudike), a factory technician working in Lagos, Nigeria, is all too familiar with their jumbled, haphazardly arranged mess. Constantly called to tinker with them to keep printers and cutting machines running, he’s learned to snip and tape and twist them to keep electrical malfunctions at bay. Mofe knows the precarity of the situation. But his calls for new junction boxes fall on deaf ears. And so, day in and day out, he must wrestle with these unruly cords to maintain a semblance of order on the factory floor.
It’s hard not to read into this introductory frame the central conceit of what co-directors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri are sketching out with their extraordinary debut feature film. Mofe, like many working class Nigerians we meet in “Eyimofe,” must contort...
It’s hard not to read into this introductory frame the central conceit of what co-directors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri are sketching out with their extraordinary debut feature film. Mofe, like many working class Nigerians we meet in “Eyimofe,” must contort...
- 7/22/2021
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
A first look photo from Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All” has debuted (see the image below) as production continues this month in the Ohio tristate area. The project has a ton of buzz behind it for reuniting Guadagnino with his “Call Me By Your Name” Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet. The script is by David Kajganich, who penned Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash” and “Suspiria.” Guadagnino’s supporting cast includes his “Suspiria” star Jessica Harper and his “We Are Who We Are” actresses Chloë Sevigny and Francesca Scorsese, plus “Waves” breakout Taylor Russell, Oscar winner Mark Rylance, André Holland, and filmmaker David Gordon Green.
The official synopsis for “Bones and All” reads: “The film is a story of first love between Maren (Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join together for...
The official synopsis for “Bones and All” reads: “The film is a story of first love between Maren (Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join together for...
- 6/24/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Though more ink was spilled over the potential of a Call Me By Your Name sequel than anything Luca Guadagnino has worked on since the original film’s release, it’s not entirely surprising that the director seems to be walking away from the project after sexual misconduct allegations surrounding Armie Hammer surfaced. Guadagnino has now officially confirmed he’s putting his focus on other projects.
“The truth of the matter is, my heart is still there, but I’m working on [Bones and All] now, and I’m hopefully going to do Scarface soon, and I have many projects and so will focus on this side of the Atlantic and the movies I want to make,” he tells Deadline.
He’s also revealed an expanded cast for Bones and All, which finds him reteaming with Timothée Chalamet, who stars alongside Taylor Russell in the adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ novel by A Bigger Splash writer Dave Kajganich.
“The truth of the matter is, my heart is still there, but I’m working on [Bones and All] now, and I’m hopefully going to do Scarface soon, and I have many projects and so will focus on this side of the Atlantic and the movies I want to make,” he tells Deadline.
He’s also revealed an expanded cast for Bones and All, which finds him reteaming with Timothée Chalamet, who stars alongside Taylor Russell in the adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ novel by A Bigger Splash writer Dave Kajganich.
- 5/31/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
“Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino has begun principal photography on his first film set in America, “Bones and All,” starring Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell and Mark Rylance.
The project, which is filming on location in the Ohio Tri-State area, marks the first collaboration between Guadagnino and Chalamet since the Oscar-nominated “Call Me By Your Name.” Adapted from the eponymous novel by Camille DeAngelis, the film is directed by Guadagnino and written by his longtime collaborator David Kajganich
Chalamet, Russell and Rylance join a cast that includes André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese and Chloë Sevigny.
“Bones and All” tells the story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, a disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join forces for a roadtrip through Ronald Reagan’s America.
Key behind-the-scenes talent includes production designer Elliott Hostetter,...
The project, which is filming on location in the Ohio Tri-State area, marks the first collaboration between Guadagnino and Chalamet since the Oscar-nominated “Call Me By Your Name.” Adapted from the eponymous novel by Camille DeAngelis, the film is directed by Guadagnino and written by his longtime collaborator David Kajganich
Chalamet, Russell and Rylance join a cast that includes André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese and Chloë Sevigny.
“Bones and All” tells the story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, a disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join forces for a roadtrip through Ronald Reagan’s America.
Key behind-the-scenes talent includes production designer Elliott Hostetter,...
- 5/28/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: On lunch break Thursday in the first day of shooting of his first U.S.-set film Bones And All, director Luca Guadagnino talked about seizing the chance to reunite with Call Me By Your Name cohorts Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg, latter of whom he added to cast along with André Holland, Jessica Harper, Chloe Sevigny, Francesca Scorsese (the Guadagnino-created HBO series We Are Who We Are), and David Gordon Green — yes, the Halloween director. They join previously announced Chalamet, Taylor Russell and Mark Rylance.
To devotees of Best Picture Oscar nominee Call Me By Your Name who were hopeful for a sequel, Guadagnino made it sound doubtful. The whole thing has gotten complicated. Chalamet will be busy making blockbusters like Dune sequels and playing the young Willy Wonka, and co-star Armie Hammer has been dropped from numerous projects over troubling off-camera allegations. But the fact is that...
To devotees of Best Picture Oscar nominee Call Me By Your Name who were hopeful for a sequel, Guadagnino made it sound doubtful. The whole thing has gotten complicated. Chalamet will be busy making blockbusters like Dune sequels and playing the young Willy Wonka, and co-star Armie Hammer has been dropped from numerous projects over troubling off-camera allegations. But the fact is that...
- 5/28/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
At the midpoint of her astounding first feature “Beginning,” Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili pulls off a brazen formalist coup that will either envelop you entirely in its world or freeze you out for good. On a glimmering autumn afternoon, put-together mother Yana (Ia Sukhitashvili) goes strolling with her pre-teen son Giorgi (Saba Gogichaishvili) in local woodlands, pausing at a leaf-carpeted clearing, where ringing birdsong and insect chatter fuse into a kind of white noise. Carefully, she lies down and closes her eyes. For six minutes, across one unbroken, tightly framed shot, we watch her rest, playing dead when her son tries to rouse her; eventually, the soundtrack of nature is subsumed by the quiet of her mind, briefly at peace.
“Beginning” contains more jolting provocations on either side of this pristine long take, but none quite so breathtaking. Some may dismiss it as an indulgent stunt, but viewers receptive to...
“Beginning” contains more jolting provocations on either side of this pristine long take, but none quite so breathtaking. Some may dismiss it as an indulgent stunt, but viewers receptive to...
- 2/20/2021
- Variety Film + TV
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature Beginning (Main Slate selection of the New York Film Festival), co-written with Rati Oneli, executive produced by Carlos Reygadas and Gaetan Rousseau, stars Ia Sukhitashvili with Oneli and Kakha Kintsurashvili. Matthieu Taponier, the editor of László Nemes’s Oscar-winning film Son Of Saul, starring Géza Röhrig, was also the editor and co-writer with Nemes and Clara Royer on Sunset (Napszállta), featuring Juli Jakab and Vlad Ivanov. Taponier edited Beginning, shot by Arseni Khachaturan with music by Nicolas Jaar.
Beginning begins in a small Jehovah's Witness prayer house in rural Georgia. The woman Yana (Ia Sukhitashvili) whose story this is, greets the congregation one by one as they enter. The carpet is red, the people are happy to attend. Yana’s husband David (Rati Oneli) gives the sermon about Abraham and Isaac, and asks if Abraham was really intent on killing Isaac, his...
Beginning begins in a small Jehovah's Witness prayer house in rural Georgia. The woman Yana (Ia Sukhitashvili) whose story this is, greets the congregation one by one as they enter. The carpet is red, the people are happy to attend. Yana’s husband David (Rati Oneli) gives the sermon about Abraham and Isaac, and asks if Abraham was really intent on killing Isaac, his...
- 10/12/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ia Sukhitashvili stars in Dea Kulumbegashvili's Beginning
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature Beginning, co-written with Rati Oneli, executive produced by Carlos Reygadas and Gaetan Rousseau, stars Ia Sukhitashvili with Oneli and Kakha Kintsurashvili. Matthieu Taponier, the editor of László Nemes’s Oscar-winning film Son Of Saul, starring Géza Röhrig was also the editor and co-writer with Nemes and Clara Royer on Sunset (Napszállta), featuring Juli Jakab and Vlad Ivanov. Taponier edited Beginning, shot by Arseni Khachaturan with music by Nicolas Jaar.
Koné Bakary in Night Of The Kings
During the Rethinking World Cinema panel discussion with Chaitanya Tamhane (The Disciple), Philippe Lacôte (Night of the Kings), Louis Henderson and Olivier Marboeuf (Ouvertures) at the New York Film Festival, I sent in the following comment and question for Dea Kulumbegashvili: You worked with Matthieu Taponier, the editor of László Nemes’s Son Of Saul and Sunset. Can you talk about your collaboration with him?...
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature Beginning, co-written with Rati Oneli, executive produced by Carlos Reygadas and Gaetan Rousseau, stars Ia Sukhitashvili with Oneli and Kakha Kintsurashvili. Matthieu Taponier, the editor of László Nemes’s Oscar-winning film Son Of Saul, starring Géza Röhrig was also the editor and co-writer with Nemes and Clara Royer on Sunset (Napszállta), featuring Juli Jakab and Vlad Ivanov. Taponier edited Beginning, shot by Arseni Khachaturan with music by Nicolas Jaar.
Koné Bakary in Night Of The Kings
During the Rethinking World Cinema panel discussion with Chaitanya Tamhane (The Disciple), Philippe Lacôte (Night of the Kings), Louis Henderson and Olivier Marboeuf (Ouvertures) at the New York Film Festival, I sent in the following comment and question for Dea Kulumbegashvili: You worked with Matthieu Taponier, the editor of László Nemes’s Son Of Saul and Sunset. Can you talk about your collaboration with him?...
- 10/7/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Above: Beginning.One of the most fulfilling experiences a moviegoer can have at a festival is encountering a new voice in cinema. This encounter produces an electricity and a hope: Cinema continues onward, on new paths. Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili definitely inspires that hope. Beginning, her feature debut which was selected for Cannes and shown at the Toronto and New York film festivals, is, in fact, immediately startling: Its first shot, a long-take of the gradual gathering of a Bible study group, is interrupted by a firebombing. Kulumbegashvili holds the image and the scene uncomfortably long, as we watch the congregation struggle to extinguish flames and exit the building. The film’s second shot underscores the latent tension and unease that from here on permeates the small-town countryside of the film. Yana (Ia Sukhitashvili), one of the group’s leaders, stands alone by a tree, and off-camera we continue to hear the fire roar.
- 10/2/2020
- MUBI
Beginning, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature, announces its director’s arrival on the arthouse scene with several bangs. In a lengthy opening shot, a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses in a rural Georgian community have their service interrupted by someone throwing molotov cocktails in their church. Everyone gets out alive, but the building gets reduced to ash and the (Orthodox Christian) townspeople won’t help them. Within several shots, Kulumbegashvili establishes the setting, story, tense mood, and her own precise style by shooting on 35mm in Academy ratio.
It takes some time before the film hones in on Yana (Ia Sukhitashvili), the wife of priest David (Rati Oneli), and their fracturing relationship. She’s experiencing an existential crisis as a result of putting aside her own dreams to stick to the faith and her husband. David goes on a trip to convince the elders to provide funds for rebuilding, and...
It takes some time before the film hones in on Yana (Ia Sukhitashvili), the wife of priest David (Rati Oneli), and their fracturing relationship. She’s experiencing an existential crisis as a result of putting aside her own dreams to stick to the faith and her husband. David goes on a trip to convince the elders to provide funds for rebuilding, and...
- 9/22/2020
- by C.J. Prince
- The Film Stage
There’s a lot going on in Aviva, an experimental new film that often defies easy description. At its core, this is a romantic drama about two lovers, but that’s very much just what’s on the surface. Through a very bold approach, both in terms of a structural decision, as well as a fearless display of nudity and sexuality, Aviva is a movie that some will find enthralling, while others will find pretentious. I’ll admit to occasionally being befuddled by the flick, but there’s an hypnotic quality to it all that quickly wins you over. Hitting this weekend, it’s being described as a mash up of Climax and Marriage Story, and while that’s not quite accurate, it’s a solid starting point. Mostly, it’s something wholly unique. The movie is hard to explain, so forgive me if I use some of the official synopsis to begin.
- 6/9/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Two only glancingly connected stories of street-level life in Lagos form the ostensible backbone of “This Is My Desire,” the engaging, earnest, loose-limbed debut feature from Nigerian twin-brother directors Arie and Chuko Esiri. But the shape of those lives is vaguely similar. Both characters begin their chapters not just dreaming of escaping the everyday grind of life in their nation’s largest, most populous city, but taking firm, expensive steps toward achieving that goal: buying passports, saving for visas, making dodgy deals for documentation with shady brokers. And still, it is a goal that never seems quite within their grasp, and not just because of the logistics. It’s almost as though Lagos itself intervenes — just as it does in almost every frame of Dp Arseni Khachaturan’s textural, colorful 35mm photography — and conspires with fate to pull them back into an embrace that is by turns comfortingly familiar and callously indifferent.
- 3/1/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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