“Hasta los huesos (Bones and all)”: cannibalism, loneliness and bad land

‘To the bones (Bones and all)’ ★★★★

Address Luca Guadagnino

interpreters Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, Jessica Harper, David Gordon Green

premiere 24 November 2022

Although parallels can be found with other films dealing with the subject, cannibalism from a certain formal abstraction such as ‘Trouble every night’ by Claire Deniswrite away from the theme with a more realistic point of view ‘They are alive!’last movie Luca Guadagnino It refers more to an inspiring tradition of North American cinema, stories of runaway adolescents. Thus, the main reference ‘To the Bones: Bones and All’ It would be ‘Bad Lands’ by Terrence Malick: two teenagers, one driving away from the police and the other running from their instincts as flesh-eaters, traveling the country trying to find a destiny and meaning. to their fateful existence.

Light, bodies, itinerary, even the soundtrack Trent Reznor and Atticus Rossmakes a strong reference to Malick’s debut film. But Guadagnino’s is not a debtor or tax movie. How to deal with cannibalism like he did jim jarmusch In ‘Only Lovers Survive’ with vampirism, frontal, realistic, inkless measures. Some kill for food. Others smell a dying body and wait patiently to quench their thirst for human flesh. Guadagnino does not judge. moments. It’s not even deceptive, despite some ‘bloody’ scenes that are absolutely essential to the development of the story. one of your movie portrait of lonelinessas it does in other seemingly more traditional movies. It’s a hit criminal (and with a cameo by David Gordon Green, the final officer in the ‘Halloween’ saga).