The film wears its homo-eroticism on its sleeve throughout, the sexual chemistry between Maren and an unsuspecting teen girl under the table reaching its apex as she shows Maren her manicure. Teenagers being teenagers, she cannot resist defying his orders and sneaks out for an evening of girlie festivities. Maren is invited to a friendly classmate’s house to sleep over but her father (André Holland) won’t allow it, locking her into her room with the windows nailed shut.
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It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep.” So when Michael Stuhlbarg describes to a pair of young cannibal lovers the transcendental experience of consuming someone “ bones and all,” he loads carcass-shaped bullets into Luca Guadagnino’s cinematic gun.
MGM releases the film in select theaters on Friday, November 18, with expansion to follow on Wednesday, November 23.Īnton Chekhov once wrote to a colleague that “One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t going to go off. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
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