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Open in new tab MOVIE CORNER: Bones and All
★★✩✩✩
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 2022
Horror/Romance/Drama
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II
How do I describe Director Luca Guadagnino’s film Bones and All? Icky. Unique but macabre. Achingly prosaic. Presents an anemic romance that seems to be not natural. The chemistry between the two lovers is mostly tepid. And cannibalism is the theme where the main characters deliberately prey on other humans for food. Yes, this horror-romance-drama will not be pleasing to your palate.
A young woman, Maren (Taylor Russell), realizes she has a need for human flesh (not just blood like vampires). Her propensity for snacking on human flesh gets her in serious trouble at a slumber party when she bites off a girl’s finger. Her father (Andre Holland, Moonlight [2016], Passing [2021]) is aware of her affliction and immediately leaves with her to an undisclosed place. Soon he abandons her. Maren is 18 years old and has to fend for herself. She wanders through back country roads, perhaps for miles on end.
She stops in a convenience store to shoplift when she sets eyes on Lee (Timothée Chalamet), an outcast like her, also an “eater” of humans. But shortly before meeting him, she’s spotted by a strange older man called Sully (Mark Rylance), who claims he can smell an “eater” like himself.… Read the rest “MOVIE CORNER: Bones and All”
RETURNING CHAPTER 27: Light Bends to the Heart
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL
Luz and Angel, with Angelito in tow, stood in front of the day care where they had last seen their daughter Lupe. It seemed like days since they were last there—no, much more than that: years, scores of them, more than a century they had traveled. And yet, in our cold benighted age, it was but a few hours. They still had the scrap of paper that read:
Don’t worry.
We have your light blessing.
You will know where she is.
They took it out and looked at it again. This time, they noticed the marks on the bottom of the page. There were two arrows ^ ^ pointing up, and a vertical straight line. next to it. Luz took the note from Angel’s hands, held it to her face, and said:
“There’s something missing here.”
Angel peered at it. “Or we’re missing something,” he said.
They stared at it for a long minute, trying to figure it out. Then their 4 ½ year old son spoke, the one who always seemed to find the way:
“Look, papi,” he said. “There’s a bit of the note still stuck to the door.”
When Luz took the scrap and held it to the note in their hands, the initials became clear: ML.… Read the rest “RETURNING CHAPTER 27: Light Bends to the Heart”
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