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Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All is, first and foremost, a beautifully directed road movie with two outstanding lead actors. Their journey of self-discovery, their doubts and backstories, and their repeated attempts to escape disaster are woven together into an atmospheric whole. In this respect, Guadagnino has created a good literary adaptation from the existing novel. However, the underlying story by Camille DeAngelis seems to waver between horror and teen romance, thus aiming to appeal to a specific target audience. The subject matter of ghouls undoubtedly lends itself to a chilling horror film. Here, however, the author, and therefore the film, has opted for a cannibal romance (similar to those featuring vampires), which is not to everyone's taste and is far removed from a true horror film. Therefore, with this film, the viewer's expectations are crucial.

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Dude! WTF??!! I got through 30 minutes of this and I had to turn it off! This was totally not what I was expecting. This was just too much for me…and not in a good way!

It’s not a bad movie. Just not the best vibes. It starts off good and then you get lost. Be patient with it.

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Bones and All is a somewhat boring movie that takes a daily look at cannibalism. Actually, I got bored because it didn't get anywhere, but, it did win my appreciation with its choice in the final. Aaaand... Taylor Russell is something else.

Horrifying yet strongly romantic!! Luca Guadagnino truly is the master of romantic film of our generation. The tenderness and subtleness in romance of Luca Guadagnino's immersive directing still remains like no-one ever achieved in this film!! Sadly, I felt some flaws in balance of horror and romance for a few scenes, and the love feeling in Taylor Russell's acting was kinda lack while Timothée Chalamet's acting was subtly brilliant. So it took me awhile to completely feel the love from this couple even in the scenes that showed they were completely in love with each others. However, Guadagnino's directing on both horror and romantic sequences are solid like a gem! It successfully makes me blushing and bloodcurdling at the same time, with the beauty of natural-light cinematography, well love-story devolopement, and gore to the guts mercilessly.

Went into this film not knowing what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised on how great it was!

beautiful, raw, brutal, melancholic, tender ️ I love this film so much

This movie is awful. Acting/Characters: The acting was terrible and very bland, emotionless. The lead actress was awful. Story: Interesting but it goes nowhere... Some of it makes no sense. This movie rips off "Raw" a foreign film.

Good film, I really empathize with characters and I appreciate their love story. Guadagnino is always avant-garde: the story, the way in wich is narrated, the characters, all is original, unconventional, fresh and international.

Beautiful, scary, emotional, disturbing. Stays with you once you've seen it. Phenomenal acting from all the cast. Great soundtrack

Here is an unconventional romance film with the aesthetic of a 70s drama .

"Bones and all" is a film about lonely, guilty, and miserable people who are forced to consume human flesh in order to satisfy their inner need. The direction of Luca Guadagnino is brilliant; he made the right choices for the "mise en scene." The love story is not well developed, and the graphic images and metaphors about cannibalism led us to a climactic moment that lacked surprise at times. The tale also occasionally feels a little dull. It's a drama with some scary sequences, not a horror movie. Not terrible, but could be far better, especially with the cast and the film's original material.

Interest 7/10 Characters 6/10 Cinematography/Set 6.5/10 Story 6/10 Acting 5/10

There were several things I liked about this movie, but the wooden dialogue, pointless digressions, and relentlessly bleak tone proved too distracting. Mark Rylance was amazing though.

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很感動浪漫的電影。 兩個孤獨的邊緣人互相理解, 支持, 相愛

Bones and all: I didn't think I would love this as much as I did but it has clearly proven itself amongst the best of this year. A movie adaptation of a young MA novel sees Luca Guadagnino reunit with Call Me by Your Name's Timothèe Chalamet to deliver an earnest exploration of love and it's burdens. Taylor Russell the quietly compelling lead first seen on studio A24's Waves is spectacular alongside the Golden globe nominee. This story **** with an unlikely predisposition who after harming a friend is forced to try find out why she is the way she is,by finding her mother first. It's a strangely optimistic tale of kinship, self discovery and human nature that leaves you emphasizing with cannibals. Along with the performances I was enthralled by the direction:smooth shots being disrupted into chaos, aged vast southern landscapes and rustic setting. It's truly captivating cinematography just add to its power. The ending however abrupt and tragic feels fitting for a film about letting go and moving on as it is done in the most tragically beautiful way possible

When Hollywood -**** MGM- copies a foreign film, in this case the overall core of the French film "RAW", it eschews the cerebral aspect of art (its basic level metaphores, its musings on our relationship to our bodies, on flesh) to focus on sensual effects (whoa! argh! cannibals! Blood! Sex! love! So exciting!) or tries to "tell a story" or worse "explain" an imagined parallel reality. And boring "realism" is the only thing Hollywood has to offer. Another perfect example here: What if there were cannibals among us, how would they survive, love etc...Pure realistic onanism. In other words, it's superficial and dumb Kleenex cinema. Besides, didn't they do that with vampires, zombies, aliens and whatnot before?

It's a modern, American folktale and I love it. It's so out there and original, creating it's own, little world to operate in there I was swept up. Mark Rylance really shines as Sully. Super creepy. You expect something like a new take on zombies, vampires or cannibalism, but it's its own thing entirely. It's got a depth that belies its classification as horror.

Maren (Taylor Russell) is a young woman living with her father who is desperately trying to keep her from acting on her urges to consume human flesh. After a shocking incident she is forced to live on the margins of society where she meets Lee (Timothée Chalamet). She also encounters the terrifying Sully (Mark Rylance), who plays the character so well your skin will crawl every time he's onscreen. But it's Lee that Maren is ultimately drawn to and they embark on a journey of self-discovery together. I guess cannibals need love too, but sorry Luca Guadagnino I just couldn't buy into the premise of the movie. Bones and All isn't quite what I was expecting. It's a mishmash of genres that never really blend together and perhaps there is a good drama/romance about cannibals out there but Bones and All isn't it. I feel this might have been a better idea to have this as a full-blown horror instead. Let's be honest, cannibalism is a horrifying topic in itself, it's right there and sure keep the romance as a subplot but condense that aspect, keep the suspense full on and shorten the runtime. Instead you're got two characters discovering themselves through their blossoming relationship but also they're both "eaters" and have the uncontrollable urge to eat people, and after a while the urge becomes so overpowering the only way to satisfy the craving is to find a suitable victim. One half of Bones and All is a very different movie and every now and again you're reminded that these two are living on the outskirts of society for a bloody good reason. There are scenes within Bones and All that are genuinely scary but overall I didn't find that the two genres worked well together. I found myself becoming constantly disengaged with the film as it dragged on and on. My idea **** cannibal story involves Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lector. Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet are great onscreen together and have strong chemistry. I feel I tried very hard to like Bones and All but I wasn't a fan and was relieved when it finally ended. I love weird films and particularly stories that try something different but this just didn't work for me at all. It's hard to find an audience to recommend Bones and All to. I can't imagine many fans of Call Me By Your Name are going to like this. The trailer gives you a taste of what to expect but I still found it disappointing. Recommended for fans of Raw, there's a chance you'll enjoy Bones and All.

Good movie. Good performances and kept you guessing what would happen next. The romance was decent and there was a lot of gore and blood if you are into stuff like that.

Walking out of the theater an hour ago, reflecting on what we had just witnessed. No spoiler alerts here and try to go in with as little knowledge about it as you can. This was a great movie with strong performances all the way around.

Letárgico e poético em alguns momentos, Timothee está perfeito mais uma vez, em um romance canibal com tons dramáticos e sombrios. Aqui o grande trunfo é a bela fotografia, cada paisagem linda! Fica meio road movie e se extende e se perde um pouco lá pelas tantas, mas mesmo com a previsibilidade do roteiro, tudo é muito bem filmado e atuado (as atuações de Taylor russel e principalmente de Mark Rylance, também estão ótimas). Como diria uma famosa cantora brasileira: "O seu amor é canibal, comeu meu coração mas agora eu sou feliz"...

Starts off pretty good but gets so much better as the film goes along. Performances are top notch.

Can a movie about cannibalism be disgusting and tender at the same time? Why not? Not only do they cleverly add details of a road movie, they also get the most out of a cast that thrills in more ways than one. Just in case, watch it on an empty stomach.

'Bones and All' is disturbing and weird, but all the themes it tries to cover make it feel a little unfocused. The acting is good, and the screenplay does a fine job exploring the dark corners of humanity, but I wish the ending wasn't that corny. Still, another solid work from Luca Guadagnino, but he has to give up on coming-of-age stories now. It's time to move on!

I was hoping it would pick up more steam towards its final act, but it didn't. A real shame because up to that point I had found it quite competent, but when the story loses its plot compass, which was the search for Maren's mother, the conclusion feels extremely anticlimactic, as for some strange reason the story introduced Rylance's character as a villain and promises a showdown in his first two appearances, but the third and final one feels like it was pulled out of nowhere and it seems like Guadagnino just made up an ending for the sake of it. Bones and All is a movie I really liked, but I hated its ending. It lost a lot of points because of it.

The incredible thing about this movie is that it creates its world and convinces the audience that the world is real.

Perhaps Guadagnino's most experimental film, a strange, imperfect, disharmonious work that hybridizes different genres - melò, horror, road movie - with abrupt leaps of tone, as if they were pieces of different films stitched together. The first 3/4 of the films in their imperfection are something astounding: a rough road movie, a horror, a coming of age a love story, but, above all, a very citationist film that pays homage to the best of some of my favorite directors ever and therefore takes me by the throat. We find Van Saant (the film oozes "My Private Own Idaho" from every pore), we find blatant quotes from Kathryn Bigelow's masterpiece "Near Dark": cannibals, like Bigelow's vampires, have no alternatives, they live in a world who does not accept them and therefore they meet and form a community. The cinematography is spot on and very reminiscent of Terrence Malick's "Badlands". The director makes good use of Von Trier-like shaky camera movements (especially in the side tracking shots which are short and very fast). The editing is truly hyper-experimental at times: it interrupts a scene in mid-suddenly only to come back to it a few seconds later. Everything often happens very (perhaps too much?) quickly and with a fleeting glance. Going back to the point, for the first 3/4 the film is breathtakingly beautiful: magnetic and imperfect like a Joy Division **** genres are mixed without ever getting bored, the apparent sweetness given by the combination road movie + romantic coming of age drama is well balanced and dampened by truly ferocious horror moments: the meeting of the protagonist with her mother is chilling (there Guadagnino mentions himself bringing to mind a scene from his Suspiria). It is the last act instead that which convinced me a little less: I found it too fast and hasty, for me it would have taken 20-30 minutes more to explore the figure of Sully and show us how he gets there to the two youngsters. It would have been a necessary choice to remove the handbrake in the finale and push this last act to the end: right down to the bone, as the title says. I understand who might think that it is not Guadagnino's best film but it is a courageous (not at all pimping), romantic and dark work based on a difficult subject and which remains etched in the mind long after viewing.

I found this movie disturbing and that's a good thing I think. Surely this film will be divisive among critics and everyone can see their metaphor in it.

Along with Everything, Everywhere All at Once, Decision to leave, Elvis and Tar, Bones and All is easily one of 2022's most enjoyable films. A must see.

Luca Guadagnino and Timothèe Chalamet teaming up to make a movie that a cannibal would love? Interesting. Unrelated but anyone know what Armie Hammer thought of this?

Timothee chalamet produces a Oscar winning performance in Luca guidiginos bones and all he carries the entire move with grace passion and pure talent very rarely seen in Hollywood today. Timothee chalamet seems to be the future of acting.

A young girl (Taylor Russell) who discovers cannibalistic urges emerging from within her embarks cross country where she meets and falls in love with a young drifter (Timothee Chalamet), who happens to be just like her. Based on the little-read YA novel of the same name, I went into this one not expecting much, and that's exactly what I got out of it. The previews and marketing made it look like yet another sappy and cliche-riddled YA romance, and that's pretty much what it was, but it was hard to expect anything more or better knowing it was based off a YA romantic novel. It also very obviously borrows influence from road/crime dramas and films of old, such as 'Badlands' and maybe even a little 'Bonnie and Clyde' mixed in while also heavily sticking to the YA romance formula to try and attract the younger demographic. While we do get a kinda cool musical score from the always reliable Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, along with some great performances from Russell and Chalamet (and even Mark Rylance in a genuinely creepy and sinister role), not even them or their chemistry is enough to overcome the predictable cliches and tropes that far too often accompany YA romance. Furthermore, much like the characters, the film simply seems to just wander with no true purpose or end destination in sight, which felt all the more apparent by the film's end. By the time it ended, I was just rolling my eyes at it all. Overall, it's certainly an interesting (and rather bloody and gross) ride while it lasts, and Russell, Chalamet, and Rylance are great, but none of that offsets the bloody sappiness of the whole ordeal. In short, they could've just as easily called this 'Twilight with Cannibals' and it would've been completely fitting.

Beautiful, scary, emotional, disturbing. Stays with you once you've seen it. Phenomenal acting from all the cast. Great soundtrack.