Country: IT/US/GB
Technical: col 131m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance
Synopsis:
A girl realizes her uncontrollable urge to chew on her friend from school, and her father in despair cuts her loose. While on the road to find her mother, she comes into contact with other 'eaters', in particular a boy her age who becomes her lover.
Review:
If Trouble Every Day (2001) did not slake your thirst for romantic cannibal films, then Guadagnino brings his sleek visual stylishness to this most redundant of vampiric sub-genres. Our lovers are not consumers (quite the reverse), so this cannot be a metaphor for consumerism. Instead it seems to be about a love that knows no bounds, but then ends on a non sequitur - although we are used to the supra-real from a film that ignores verisimilitude to contemplate eating people 'bones and all' as the ultimate high, and which leaves a trail of destruction notably immune to law enforcement. Some found things to praise in it, perhaps a rejection of consumerism in favour of authenticity (all the eaters are dropouts), but to most it will impress as merely overlong and repellent.
Country: IT/US/GB
Technical: col 131m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance
Synopsis:
A girl realizes her uncontrollable urge to chew on her friend from school, and her father in despair cuts her loose. While on the road to find her mother, she comes into contact with other 'eaters', in particular a boy her age who becomes her lover.
Review:
If Trouble Every Day (2001) did not slake your thirst for romantic cannibal films, then Guadagnino brings his sleek visual stylishness to this most redundant of vampiric sub-genres. Our lovers are not consumers (quite the reverse), so this cannot be a metaphor for consumerism. Instead it seems to be about a love that knows no bounds, but then ends on a non sequitur - although we are used to the supra-real from a film that ignores verisimilitude to contemplate eating people 'bones and all' as the ultimate high, and which leaves a trail of destruction notably immune to law enforcement. Some found things to praise in it, perhaps a rejection of consumerism in favour of authenticity (all the eaters are dropouts), but to most it will impress as merely overlong and repellent.
