He weaves a rope out of hair from people he's eaten. Sully is a talkative man, and there’s something a bit sinister about him, too. It isn’t until she sets out on the road to find her father that she finally meets one of her own kind. She ate the son of her mother’s boss during a party.
She ate a boy who befriended her at summer camp. She devoured the kind babysitter who showed her affection, and things only got worse from there. Maren started eating people when she was a little kid.
In DeAngelis’ ( Petty Magic, 2010, etc.) third novel, 16-year-old Maren is determined to track down her father after her mother, who clearly loves her but is scared for her own life, abandons her, leaving behind some money and the girl's birth certificate, which includes some important information: her father’s name. I will just rewatch Kathryn Bigelow's masterpiece "Near Dark" which I think would have been the perfect inspiration.Love is challenging for any species-but things get more complicated when you’re a ghoul who wants to eat anyone who gets close to you. Bones & All ultimately ends up being a tiresome teen romance road trip interrupted by bizarre gory scenes. After the masterful Suspiria, I was really expecting Guadagnino to deliver on the horror front but I think he got sucked away by the gorgeous landscapes and forgot to build up tension or fear. They are too few, tonally all over the place and end up underwhelming. Most "gory" moments are contrived, shoehorned inside the romance. So when we get to the core horror aspect of the movie it mostly fails. But the underdeveloped family moments and repetitive travel adventures don't help to build much of her personality. She also carries much of the movie on her frail shoulder. Star of the show, Taylor Russell is beautiful and haunting. Timothée Chalamet is clearly miscast as his sweet and soft demeanor don't match with the supposed danger and inner violence of his character. The narrative is overstretched by a terribly slow pace reinforced by wooden dialogues between lovers that don't have much chemistry to begin with. His menacing presence is the feature only redeeming quality. Even though the cinematography and atmosphere are beautiful and what you would expect from the visual master, the film suffers from tonal shifts and a very talky script that is only saved by a fantastic turn by Mark Rylance. As a massive admirer of Luca Guadagnino's work, it saddens me to say that Bones & All is disappointing.
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