Bones and All: Review

Guadagnino's latest finds a profound sense of belonging amongst the blood and lust 

Admittedly, Guadagnino gives the audience very little to work with as it reveals itself very painstakingly. Bones and All looks beyond the traditional symbolism of cannibalism and uses it as a front for generational trauma and finding a sense of place. There’s real strength in this hybridity, blending the road movie with traditional counter culture sensibilities following two lovers on the fringes of society. Its texas chainsaw masacre meets wim wenders with a romantic surge of bonnie and clyde.

More than anything, it reinforces guadagnino‘s profound talent as a heavily visual filmmaker. he finds real visceral beauty amongst the browned blood and dirt of disenfranchised US. It’s magnificently directed but the script feels largely redundant. it struggles to be as consistently profound as it wants to be and this is largely down to it falling victim to the same structural problems of most road movies. Narratively is fairly clunky and it exhausts any idea of what to do with Mark Rylance's character. 

That being said, the film's intentions become a lot clearer in its final moments and I found myself reevaluating the entire product as a whole.