From director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria) comes this unconventional story of two young people navigating first love and cannibal impulses.
Maren (Taylor Russell) is a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society when she meets Lee (Timothee Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter. Together they embark on a thousand-mile odyssey which takes them through the back roads, hidden passages and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand which will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
Why We Love It:
"With shades of My Own Private Idaho and Badlands, Bones and All authentically captures the beauty and desolation of America's backroads, and the desperate cling of outsiders in love. A bruised, beautiful love story in its own right, it's also an allegory to poverty, chronic illness and queerness that hits hard both in the cinema and on reflection. On paper it may seem miles away from the lush longing of Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name, but both films are heavy with the devastation of first love, and - with their pitch-perfect costumes, music choices and production design - can be read as parallel portraits of 1980s youth."
Claire Biddles, Glasgow Film Marketing Officer