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It’s been five years since filmmaker Luca Guadagnino coronated Timothée Chalamet as one of the most promising actors of his generation in Call Me by Your Name, and now the duo have returned to Italy to debut another achingly romantic story of first love.
Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, Bones & All is a tale set in the ’80s American Midwest about two teen cannibals, Maren (Taylor Russell) and Lee (Chalamet), who bond over their shared taste for human flesh and crippling loneliness in a world that will never understand or accept them.
During the film’s press conference, Chalamet discussed why he took on a more intimate, character-driven film in between two installments of the sci-fi epic Dune.