By Associated Press
VENICE: Timothée Chalamet was feeling reduce off from the world within the early days of the pandemic. Then Luca Guadagnino, whom Chalamet noticed as a father determine whereas filming “Call Me By Your Name,” known as with a brand new potential challenge. It can be one other younger romance set within the Nineteen Eighties. But as an alternative of Italy they’d be going to the American Midwest. And they’d be cannibals.
The movie, “Bones and All” is having its world premiere Friday night time on the Venice Film Festival, the place it’s among the many competitors titles. Chalamet and Guadagnino gathered earlier than the premiere to debate the movie with the solid.
It’s a major departure for the Italian director of movies like “A Bigger Splash” and “I Am Love,” marking the primary time Guadagnino has made an American movie — one thing he’s wished to do for a while. Then his longtime collaborator, screenwriter David Kajganich, got here to him with an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ younger grownup novel and he noticed in it a possibility to make a movie about id and outcasts.
“I was dying to work with Luca again and tell a story that was grounded,” mentioned Chalamet, who took a break from filming “Dune 2” to look in Venice. Swarms of followers gathered across the docks of the Hotel Excelsior to get a glimpse of the star, who even stopped to pose for a number of selfies.
In “Bones and All,” Chalamet did extra than simply act: He helped take his character Lee from an “alpha jock” to a “broken soul,” which he mentioned was very enticing to him, and bought a producing credit score on the movie as nicely.
“Luca is fatherly with me and guided me in that process this time,” he mentioned. “I can’t say that I was helpful organizing schedules or anything like that. But it’s something I want to continue doing.”
Chalamet’s character is a supporting half to the movie’s lead Maren, who’s coming to phrases together with her unsavoury urges. She’s performed by “Waves” actor Taylor Russell, a newcomer to the Guadagnino household of regulars like Michael Stuhlbarg, as a creepy cannibal they meet on the street, and Chloë Sevigny.
“It’s Taylor’s movie, she does an incredible job carrying it,” Chalamet mentioned.
The dialogue of their characters, and the loneliness they really feel on the planet, led each to consider what it means to be younger in the mean time.
“Can’t imagine what it is to grow up with the onslaught of social media,” Chalamet mentioned. “I feel it’s powerful to be alive now. I feel societal collapse is within the air. It smells prefer it. And with out being pretentious, I hope that’s why these motion pictures matter, as a result of the position of the artist is to shine a light-weight on what’s happening.”
Russell added that, “It’s so scary. The hope is that you can find your own compass within all of it.”
The movie additionally includes a new rating by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, whom Guadagnino challenged to “find the sound of a road trip” and “the sound of the American landscape.” And it’s filled with Nineteen Eighties music from Joy Division, New Order and even KISS, which have been chosen from a field of cassette tapes that Kajganich discovered from when he was a young person.
“The ones that either made me smile or cry made it in the script,” Kajganich mentioned.
“Bones and All” opens in North American theatres on Nov. 23.
VENICE: Timothée Chalamet was feeling reduce off from the world within the early days of the pandemic. Then Luca Guadagnino, whom Chalamet noticed as a father determine whereas filming “Call Me By Your Name,” known as with a brand new potential challenge. It can be one other younger romance set within the Nineteen Eighties. But as an alternative of Italy they’d be going to the American Midwest. And they’d be cannibals.
The movie, “Bones and All” is having its world premiere Friday night time on the Venice Film Festival, the place it’s among the many competitors titles. Chalamet and Guadagnino gathered earlier than the premiere to debate the movie with the solid.
It’s a major departure for the Italian director of movies like “A Bigger Splash” and “I Am Love,” marking the primary time Guadagnino has made an American movie — one thing he’s wished to do for a while. Then his longtime collaborator, screenwriter David Kajganich, got here to him with an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ younger grownup novel and he noticed in it a possibility to make a movie about id and outcasts.
“I was dying to work with Luca again and tell a story that was grounded,” mentioned Chalamet, who took a break from filming “Dune 2” to look in Venice. Swarms of followers gathered across the docks of the Hotel Excelsior to get a glimpse of the star, who even stopped to pose for a number of selfies.
In “Bones and All,” Chalamet did extra than simply act: He helped take his character Lee from an “alpha jock” to a “broken soul,” which he mentioned was very enticing to him, and bought a producing credit score on the movie as nicely.
“Luca is fatherly with me and guided me in that process this time,” he mentioned. “I can’t say that I was helpful organizing schedules or anything like that. But it’s something I want to continue doing.”
Chalamet’s character is a supporting half to the movie’s lead Maren, who’s coming to phrases together with her unsavoury urges. She’s performed by “Waves” actor Taylor Russell, a newcomer to the Guadagnino household of regulars like Michael Stuhlbarg, as a creepy cannibal they meet on the street, and Chloë Sevigny.
“It’s Taylor’s movie, she does an incredible job carrying it,” Chalamet mentioned.
The dialogue of their characters, and the loneliness they really feel on the planet, led each to consider what it means to be younger in the mean time.
“Can’t imagine what it is to grow up with the onslaught of social media,” Chalamet mentioned. “I feel it’s powerful to be alive now. I feel societal collapse is within the air. It smells prefer it. And with out being pretentious, I hope that’s why these motion pictures matter, as a result of the position of the artist is to shine a light-weight on what’s happening.”
Russell added that, “It’s so scary. The hope is that you can find your own compass within all of it.”
The movie additionally includes a new rating by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, whom Guadagnino challenged to “find the sound of a road trip” and “the sound of the American landscape.” And it’s filled with Nineteen Eighties music from Joy Division, New Order and even KISS, which have been chosen from a field of cassette tapes that Kajganich discovered from when he was a young person.
“The ones that either made me smile or cry made it in the script,” Kajganich mentioned.
“Bones and All” opens in North American theatres on Nov. 23.