Timothée Chalamet sinks his teeth into Venice cannibal flick

VENICE, Sept 2 (Reuters) – “Bones and All” starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell is an old style love story and street film with a twist – the star-crossed protagonists are cannibals struggling to reside with their horrific affliction.

“I really feel prefer it has been one of many weirdest components of my profession,” Chalamet informed Reuters forward of the film’s premiere on Friday on the Venice Movie Competition.

The image reunites Chalamet with director Luca Guadagnino, the Italian auteur behind “Name Me by Your Title”, the 2017 homosexual coming-of-age-film that helped propel the younger U.S. actor to worldwide stardom.

Since then, Chalamet has performed a string of typically intense, troubled younger males. However “Bones and All” takes issues a number of phases additional as he hooks up with Russell and the pair cross the U.S. Midwest wrestling with, and typically succumbing to, their inside demons.

Chalamet mentioned he hoped the viewers would look past the gore and see the humanity on the coronary heart of the story.

“I hope it does not get misconstrued as a horror movie or a cannibal movie, or a movie that’s pretend edgy that’s making an attempt to shock you,” he mentioned.

“It’s about a lot greater than that. It’s in regards to the human expertise. It’s about being alive at a time when there wasn’t the Web and being completely disenfranchised and discovering love that makes you are feeling seen.”

Earlier than discovering Chalamet, the movie follows Russell as she seeks out her long-lost mom and, for the primary time, confronts a world of fellow “eaters”, together with Sully, performed by Mark Rylance, with whom she shares an appalling meal.

Though the feral consuming scenes are more likely to shock many cinema-goers, Russell mentioned they weren’t arduous to behave out.

“The goriness, for those who would name it that, (has) a tactile ingredient to it as a result of it’s so sensible to behave. So you do not have to assume an excessive amount of about it. You simply must do it. The emotional stuff is what you are worried about,” she informed Reuters.

It’s the second 12 months working that Chalamet has headlined a significant movie at Venice, following on from his 2021 blockbuster “Dune”, and lots of of followers waited below a fierce summer season solar to catch a glimpse of their hero stepping out onto the purple carpet.

“Man, it is superb. That is nice, all this vitality, I really feel like I am again house,” Chalamet mentioned after stepping ashore on the Lido, a protracted, pencil island within the Venice lagoon, the place the world’s oldest movie competition performs out.

Reporting by Crispian Balmer; enhancing by John Stonestreet

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