Timothée Chalamet and Luca Guadagnino bring Bones and All to the BFI London Film Festival 2022

The stars and director of Bones and All, a finger-lickin-good 80s set road movie about young cannibal lovers, arrive at the BFI London Film Festival, presented in partnership with American Express (5-16 October). Shy teen Maren (Taylor Russell, dazzling again after Waves) isn’t like her classmates. She eats flesh; a fact her beleaguered single father finds increasingly hard to hide – and manage. Forced to set off on her own, Maren goes in search of the mother she never knew, meeting other outsiders – fellow ‘feeders’ – on the dusty highways and byways. Some encounters are less savoury, such as deliciously creepy turns from Mark Rylance and Michael Stuhlbarg. But puckish Lee (Timothée Chalamet at his megawatt best) helps her settle into her deviance and feel less alone. Cinematographer Arseni Khachaturan and designer Elliott Hostetter create an early Reaganite American that’s threadbare and broken-down, but also nostalgically soulful and full of humanity. And as befits the filmmaker behind such co