🎬 Bones and All (2022) – Love is a hunger. And some hungers never die.

They found each other on the edge of society—but love has its own appetite

Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Bones and All is a hauntingly poetic blend of horror, romance, and coming-of-age drama. Set against the desolate highways and ghost towns of 1980s America, the film follows two young outcasts—Maren (Taylor Russell) and Lee (Timothée Chalamet)—bound together by a terrible secret: they are both cannibals.

Maren, abandoned by her father after a violent incident, sets off in search of her estranged mother and answers about her condition. Along the way, she meets Lee, a fellow “eater” who’s reckless, charming, and deeply scarred. What begins as a tentative companionship quickly blooms into a fragile, aching love as they journey through the margins of society, grappling with identity, morality, and the monstrous hunger that defines them.

Their bond is tender but tragic, always shadowed by the knowledge that they can’t fully escape who—or what—they are. Guadagnino crafts this unconventional love story with eerie beauty and emotional rawness, turning grotesque appetite into a metaphor for loneliness, shame, and the desperate need to belong.

Bones and All is not your typical horror film. It’s a tale about being devoured by love, by guilt, and by the parts of ourselves we wish we could bury. With hypnotic performances, dreamlike cinematography, and a score that aches with melancholy, the film dares to ask: If someone consumes your heart, is that love—or just hunger?