Luca Guadagnino’s violent coming-of-age drama is a blood-soaked, gut-wrenching love story.
A cross-country road trip. Late-night bonfire pit confessions. Two bodies finding belonging in one another. Luca Guadagnino’shits all the seminal beats of a romantic drama—and it’s undoubtedly the romance of the year, overflowing with visceral pining and slow sunsets. That classification may come as a surprise, considering this deliciously dark film follows two hungry cannibals falling in love amid a battle to resist their instincts.
Repulsed by her innate cravings, Maren’s denial is fuel on the fire as she ventures across the sprawling barrenness of late-’80s America in search of her missing mother, bodies to feast on, and running from the stain of death blanketing her body. During her aimless wandering, she meets fellow “eater” Lee , a wounded young man whose angular beauty is encased by sharp masculine insecurity.
Guadagnino executes moments of intense violence through Maren’s perspective, making Lee an object of eroticism. In the pair’s first meeting, the young man emerges with blood dripping down his jaw, pooling in his collarbones and running over his pale chest. It’s a replica shot of a love interest emerging, dampened and disheveled, from the ocean—but here, with a viscous, rouge fluid.
One evening, Maren watches as Lee seduces a carnival worker under glowing neon lights. Taking him into a nearby cornfield, Lee has sex with the man in an evocative moment ripe with sensuality. Just as he’s about to orgasm, Lee slits his throat. Cinematographer Arseni Khachaturan frames the killings as disturbingly bewitching, a contrasting mood to the unfolding gory violence.
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