Bones and All * * *

If Director Luca Guadagnino keeps this up he might just get back to where he was.  Its one step up from his last film, the God-Awful Suspiria. but still a long way from his masterful Call Me By Your Name,.

Personally I'm a big fan of Arty Horror, but if that's what Bones and All  is supposed to be it's going to have to do better.  (Being a bit funnier wouldn't have hurt it either.) 

Cute? Kiss them at your own peril.

Didn't anybody stop at any time and think, "God this is dumb!?" Because in some ways it is. If there is a bunch of people running around eating other people, I think the cops are soon going to find out, especially with the trail these people leave behind!

We start off with a pretty girl called Maren taking a bite out of her friend.  She runs home and tells Dad. "Aw shit, not again!" he says. He's  just about had enough of her cannibalism, so he abandons her and leaves her to her own devices - or incisors.

Maren hits the road and meets a truly weird old man who says he's one of her type.  He invites her to share a "meal" - some poor little old lady. "Yuck no!" she says, but changes her mind when she wakes up hungry in the morning - munch munch.  He reassures her she is not alone with her unseemly appetite. So now we learn there is a whole tribe of cannibals living amongst us and they telepathically communicate and like, no one has ever caught on!

But you've got to look at it another way I suppose.  It doesn't matter how illogical it is, it's just a device,  a background for a love story, because pretty soon our pretty girl has met a pretty boy (Timothee Chalamet). He too has the same problem and loves to occasionally dine on another human. I should mention their table manners are so disgusting they'd make a street dog look civilised.

I guess it might be asking us to understand and sympathise with those that can't help themselves. They even talk about it as an addiction.  At times they look and behave like a couple of junkies.

It's a bit of a road trip as she also wants to meet up with her estranged mother because Maren figures Mum is probably of the same ilk and she might have an explanation for this rather inconvenient addiction she was born with.  Meanwhile creepy old man is on her tail and he really wants to be "On Her Tail" if you get my drift.

This isn't the only film where I have seen eating human flesh being presented as a serious subject matter.  Recently Raw did it so much better, and after that film I have to wonder why they bothered making this.