‘Bones and All’ is Exquisitely Disturbing & Painfully Sweet
Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation maps out a surreal, menacing love story that’s difficult to look away from.
Sometimes, I’ll come out of a horror movie and tell my friends, “Fair warning, this one’s not for the faint of heart.” I’m mostly talking about gore; I know a lot of people are tired of blood and guts as the main event — Saw-style, put on a platter and shoved under their nose like a side-show.
Bones and All, though, does something that’s far more affecting and upsetting: it’s a horror film about a romance for which gore is an inescapable byproduct for our two leads. As is often the case with “alternative” lifestyles, it’s the thing that brings them together — and makes it impossible for them to stay that way.
Maren (Taylor Russell) has been an “eater” since she was a child but can’t remember much of it. Her father — stretched to his limits of understanding— eventually gives up years of covering up her crimes and abandons his 18-year-old, leaving her with a…
