Overview: Bones and All is a story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter; a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.

Blu-ray Verdict: An undoubtedly ambitious undertaking, critically lauded director Luca Guadagnino can�t be accused of taking the easy route here alongside his screenwriter David Kajganich, as the two adapt Camille DeAngelis cannibal themed road trip romance/coming of age tale that will likely engross (and gross out) some viewers and bore and confuse others.

Transporting DeAngelis�s source material to the 1980�s, Bones and All centers around Waves breakout star and future megastar Taylor Russell�s Maren, who finds herself abandoned by her long supportive father due to the fact she has a curious taste in desires and wants, needs that have ensured the teenager has lived anything but a normal life.

Indeed, it is a life she soon discovers is shared by others, including Timoth�e Chalamet�s in-need-of-some-new-jeans Lee, Mark Rylance�s unnervingly tilted Sully, and a scene-stealing Michael Stuhlbarg, in a polar opposite turn from the one we last saw in his prior collaboration with Guadagnino in Call Me by Your Name.

Holding back nothing, with Bones and All more gruesome and confronting than an unsuspecting viewer might initially expect, Guadagnino throws Maren and we the viewers headfirst into a bizarre world that at times may feel familiar, but at other times totally foreign.

For we watch along as Maren and Lee strike up a curious friendship turned romance that acts as some type of flesh eating Badlands that also manages to touch on various heavy themes with enough weight for multiple narratives.

Throughout Guadagnino�s road trip, the work of Russell and Chalamet is at all times top class and it will be hard for many to forget the sight of a shuffling Rylance bloodied in his underwear anytime soon.

And while, as you would expect from a film under the guidance of the Italian director, Bones and All is as pretty as a picture with the typically unique and gripping score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross amongst some of their best work as it sets about to enhance the picture it supports.

But there is a key element missing from this left of center tale that holds it back from becoming the romantic masterpiece with a difference it, perhaps, wanted to be.

For various reasons, reasons that don�t identify one key instigator to it all, the central romance between Maren and Lee never sparks the way in which one would�ve hoped for and while the work of its performers isn�t at fault, we�re never drawn in under a spell that sometimes works its magic on audiences in other such star-crossed lovers tales.

And while those that jump on board with the film will find intrigue and shock in Maren and Lee�s journey of discovery, it�s unfortunate Bones and All�s heart doesn�t beat as powerfully as I personally think it was planned to do.

Likely to enrapture as much as it alienates, Bones and All is worthwhile attempt at creating a romance with a difference, but not the all-timer it might have been, even if the work of Taylor Russell here showcases the early stages of a budding superstar.

Luca Guadagnino�s Venice Film Festival Award winning Bones and All, from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists Releasing, will be released on Blu-ray on January 31st, 2023, it was announced today by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

Directed by Guadagnino from a screenplay by David Kajganich, the film is based on the novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis. The film is produced by Luca Guadagnino, Theresa Park, Marco Morabito, David Kajganich, Francesco Melzi d�Eril, Lorenzo Mieli, Gabriele Moratti, Peter Spears, and Timoth�e Chalamet.

Bones and All stars Taylor Russell (Escape Room), Academy Award� nominee Timoth�e Chalamet (Call me By Your Name), Academy Award� winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies), Andr� Holland, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jessica Harper, and Academy Award� nominee Chlo� Sevigny (Boys Don�t Cry).

Bones and All will be available on DVD on January 31st, 2023 for $29.98 (SRP).

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