What Luca Guadagnino’s Cannibal Love Story ‘Bones And All’ Taught Him About His Own Drive To Make Movies – Venice Q&A

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Luca Guadagnino has only just moved into the historic house in Piedmont, Italy that he bought some four years ago. What he hoped would be a pain-free renovation project was compounded by issues with the foundation that prolonged the work.

And while he’s satisfied with the fit and finish, all meticulously directed by him (Guadagnino has his own interior design firm), it is still bare of furniture, there’s no internet, and cellphone service is only possible from one spot on the terrace… in a favorable wind.

Upstairs, a stunning home theater has been fully kitted-out save for the HDMI cables required to pass a picture through the projector, and most of his DVDs and Blu-rays have yet to be unpacked, but he has wasted no time in setting up an editing suite in which he is making much swifter progress on Challengers, a film starring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor that the rest of us won’t see for another year.As Deadline visits him on his 51st birthday in early August, Guadagnino is primed instead to discuss Bones and All, the new feature that reunites him with Call Me by Your Name star Timothée Chalamet and marks his first collaboration with Waves breakout Taylor Russell.

Based on the book by Camille DeAngelis and adapted by David Kajganich, with whom Guadagnino collaborated on A Bigger Splash and Suspiria, the film tells the story of Maren and Lee, two unlikely companions who unite in America’s Midwest in the 1980s after Maren is abandoned by her father (André Holland).