IT’S BEEN FIVE YEARS SINCE DIRECTOR LUCA Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name shot Timothée Chalamet to fame, winning him an Oscar nomination for his role as a teenager experiencing his sexual awakening. No one could have predicted what might form their reunion: a coming-of-age cannibal road movie, featuring two young lovers whose lust for each other is only outweighed by their need to feast on human flesh. It’s also, surprisingly, achingly romantic.
Adapted from Camille DeAngelis’s 2015 novel, follows the young Maren (’s Taylor Russell). Abandoned by her father (André Holland), who can’t cope with her uncontrollable tendencies, she’s left to wander the Reagan-era Midwest, where she meets Lee (Chalamet). Both sense the same thing in the other: the all-consuming desire to feed. The
