There's always been something vaguely bloodthirsty about the culture's collective lust for its teen heart-throbs – every contour of their flesh grist for the mill of public consumption, every pretty face and lithe body designed to be eaten alive. Bones and All, an 80s-set teenage road movie that reunites Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino and Timothée Chalamet, knows as much: there's an audience out there that would love to take a bite out of its star – and it's out to make them swoon with desire, and disgust.
Surveying a desolate America more Badlands than Stranger Things, the Italian filmmaker makes it quickly apparent that he's not here for another round of neon-tinted nostalgia.
Within the film's opening moments, at a slumber party in suburban Virginia, 18-year-old high school senior Maren (Taylor Russell, Waves) has chowed down on a pal's freshly painted finger like she's devouring a corn dog – or a certain erotic peach – awakening a latent bloodlust that she can no longer ignore.
