Forget Dune, Timothée Chalamet's Peak Was 2 Years Ago With This Surprisingly Underrated Movie 

Summary:

• Timothée Chalamet has earned international fame thanks to his leading roles in the biggest movies, but his most authentic performance from 2 years ago was brutally ignored.
• In Bones and All Chalamet portrays young Lee who goes on a road trip with a young cannibal girl Maren and discovers deep feelings for her.
• The actor managed to deliver a challenging performance while not that experienced at the time and received many critics’ acclaim, but the film itself still was pretty much ignored by the public.

Timothée Chalamet may be one of the biggest Hollywood stars right now with a vast filmography full of very well-known movie names — but there was at least one of his works that was unjustly overlooked.

In 2022, before hitting cinemas around the world with the highest-grossing Wonka and Dune: Part 2, Chalamet appeared in a romantic horror Bones and All — his second film with director Luca Guadagnino after the breakthrough Call Me by Your Name.

In the film the actor plays alongside Taylor Russell with whom he portrays a young couple of cannibals — they embark on a cross-country journey trying to find Russell’s character Maren’s mother and gradually discover their feelings for each other.

Though the film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and was pretty much praised mostly thanks to Russell and Chalamet performances, Bones and All still has an odd rating of 81% on Rotten Tomatoes with an even lower audience score of 62% and was generally ignored at least by the media community when it came out.

Yet so far it seems to be the movie that proves Timothée Chalamet’s genius for acting in the most explicit way. As Bones and All had happened before the actor managed to get some high-profile experience with the biggest movies of the recent times, showing his character Lee’s complicated personality with toughness and incredible sensibility mixed in one was obviously a challenging moment for the then rising star.

On top of that, in one of the film’s strongest scenes Lee delivers a several-minute-long monologue that’s concluded by Maren’s confession that she loves him — the feeling that probably comes to the viewers as well despite Chalamet’s character’s undoubted dark side which fades a little as the sympathy for Lee grows.

Though Bones and All seems to be separated from Chalamet’s entire filmography by the peculiarities of the horror genre, it’s still worth watching — because sometimes not everything is about the ratings.