Actor Timothée Chalamet looks at our world with concern. "I think it's hard to live in this time," said the 26-year-old on Friday in Venice. "Societal collapse is in the air."

Artists could illuminate this development. The New York-born actor stars in Luca Guadagnino's new film ("Call Me by Your Name"), which tells in its own way about people who struggle in society. "Bones and All" was scheduled to premiere at the film festival on Friday night.

The work, which runs in the competition program, tells the story of a young woman (Taylor Russell) who is a cannibal and tries to trace her family roots. She meets Lee (Chalamet) and falls in love with him.

Guadagnino's film is set in the 1980s. "It's been a relief playing characters who are struggling with inner conflicts and not having the ability to go to Reddit or Twitter or Instagram or Tiktok to see where they fit in," Chalamet said. Even if he doesn't want to judge people who do this. "To be young in our time...is to be severely judged."