Luca Guadagnino: “Bones and All is a fairy tale about loneliness and love”

Luca Guadagnino, Timothée Chalamet And Taylor Russell I’m in Italy for the promotion of the expected Bones and Allawarded at the last Venice Film Festival with the Silver Lion for best direction (to Guadagnino) and with the Mastroianni to the young actress of Escape Room. The film will be released in theaters on November 23 and we hope to find it in some category in the next Oscar.

It is the first feature film that the Sicilian director shoots in the United States, and he would not have done it without Timothée Chalametthe actor that Guadagnino launched thanks to his Call me by your name (now one of the most requested interpreters). «When I arrived at page 45 of the script, I immediately thought of Timothée for the character of the wanderer and cannibal Lee», Says the director from a hotel in Rome,« he was the only Lee possible. Thank goodness he said yes. ”

A very strong partnership has been established between the two. “I wouldn’t have made it this far if I hadn’t turned around Call me by your nameHe admits Chalamet, “That film was a gift like Bones and AllLuca is my mentor and continues to be, is a friend and my rockI hope to continue doing many things with him because he has an artistic rhythm that involves you and infects you ». Call me By Your Name (original title of the 2017 film) went a long way by winning an Oscar for screenplay. We wish the same luck to Bones and All in which it tells of a love story between Maren, an eighteen-year-old bewildered (Taylor Russell), and Lee, a lonely wanderer (Timothée Chalamet), marginalized by society as cannibals. Together they will try to find a place in the world and savor a pinch of “real” life.

«This film is one fairy tale about the loneliness of existence and on the desire to break this loneliness thanks to love, to the gaze of the other », Guadagnino affirms. “During the lockdown we all tried to be isolated,” continues the actor of Dunes, “These two characters live in the 1980s, during the Reagan period during which a promise was made to the Americans and then disregarded. Here Lee and Maren fight to find themselves and their dignity. The cannibalism it is a pretext to make history more powerful and to distance them even further from the society that marginalizes them ».

Can love be the cure? “Sure,” he replies Chalamet, «When Maren meets Lee it is as if she found a glimmer of salvation, but at the same time, love is not a box that once filled remains so. You struggle all your life for love and everyone should feel worthy of being loved ”. «I hope watching the movie the public more youngwho does not yet have the awareness of how one can be overwhelmed by love, is somehow prepared ”, hopes the director.