![]() The way Maren looks at Sherry ( Kendle Coffey), how she drinks in her scent, suggests a fiercely hormonal attraction. ![]() She’s forming a special friendship with a classmate at her new school, and sneaks out to join the teen’s slumber party. ![]() We meet Maren (Taylor Russell of “Waves”) in a rural Virginia high school in the mid-80s. Some of the subtexts director/provocateur Luca Guadagnino (“Call Me By Your name,” “Suspiria”) suggests, in this adaptation of what is allegedly a more darkly comical novel (by Camille DeAngelis), have been given short shrift in creating a film of gruesome shock value, another startling performance by Mark Rylance, and little more. I never really bought the romance of convenience set up here. I went to see a late night showing well into the run and tried not to wonder too much about the denizens of the dark more eagerly sitting down for this two-hours-plus smorgasbord of gore. And whatever its broader appeal, a teen cannibals in love story co-starring transgression-is-my-brand Timothée Chalamet was not something I particularly wanted to see.īut as a “Badlands” style outlaw odyssey with seal-the-deal-on-vegetarianism messaging, “Bones and All” beckoned. ![]() ![]() It was never going to be a horror film for everyone. ![]()
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