‘Bones And All’ Premiere Gets 10-Minute Standing Ovation At Premiere – Venice

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It’s Bones and All day here at the Venice Film Festival, where the Timothée Chalamet-Taylor Russell starrer from Luca Guadagnino received a 10-minute standing ovation after its world premiere screening this evening.The audience cheered with shouts of “Luca!

Luca! Luca!” — a reaction that delayed the beginning of the evening’s next competition film.Venice Film Festival 2022 PhotosBased on the book by Camille DeAngelis and adapted by David Kajganich, the film tells the story of Maren (Russell) and Lee (Chalamet), two unlikely companions who unite in America’s Midwest in the 1980s after Maren is abandoned by her father.

As they make their way across the country, their shared compulsion to feast on human flesh and their struggle to reconcile the immorality of their desire forces them into society’s margins, destined to deal with the consequences of their true selves for the rest of their lives.Venice Film Festival: Memorable Moments 1945-1984 GalleryIn his review, Deadline’s Damon Wise called the film “an almost anthropological study of outsiderdom, using the false dawn of the American 1980s as a sort of petri dish for a new kind of conformity that has led us where we are today.”The Chalamet faithful started packing the area outside the Sala Grande from early this morning, hoping to catch a glimpse of the actor — who graciously stopped to chat and sign autographs before this afternoon’s press conference.During that sit-down, which also included co-stars Mark Rylance and Chloë Sevigny, Chalamet waxed on the challenges facing today’s kids.Venice Film Festival: Deadline’s Full Coverage“To be young now is to be intensely judged,” he said.