The average movie trailer these days does little more than it’s meant to do: promote the movie. And that is perfectly fine, if a little boring. A lot of people disavow themselves of even watching trailers at all, for fear of being spoiled. We’d rather watch the actual film!
But Bones and All’s first full trailer has arrived to challenge the anti-trailer contingent to reconsider their position. Set to the gravelly, bass-heavy Leonard Cohen song “You Want It Darker,” it’s basically a mini music video—edited in time to the song’s beat, cuts falling in tandem with the drum beat, shots held alongside sustained notes. As Cohen sings about “a lullaby for suffering,” darkness and violence abound, both lyrically and visually.
And blood. There’s a lot of blood. Bones and All is a love story about teen cannibals traveling across the Midwest, after all; they spend the movie gorging on bodies and wiping the blood off their faces and fingernails. While Marin (Taylor Russell) is coming to terms with her innate hunger for human flesh, her new friend-turned-lover Lee (Timothée Chalamet) has accepted his lot in life.
