The two young “eaters,” as they call themselves, eventually attempt to stake out a semblance of normalcy and stability rather than staying on the road, until Sully reinserts himself into their lives.

With a bit of cash, her birth certificate and a cassette tape on which her father tries to explain himself, Maren sets out in search of her mother, who she has never known.Īlong the way, she encounters Sully (Mark Rylance), who has the same compulsion to cannibalism and seems eager to take her under his wing, but she prefers to travel on her own until she meets Lee (Timothée Chalamet). The film doesn’t belabor the specifics of this strange hunger, leaving it as a central enigma for Maren to grapple with it makes her an outsider to society but also, in many ways, unknowable to herself. Teenage Maren (Taylor Russell) has been abandoned by her father (André Holland), who can no longer deal with Maren’s condition of being driven to eat people. Because moviegoing carries risks during this time, we remind readers to follow health and safety guidelines as outlined by the CDC and local health officials.

Love may come in many shapes and sizes, but for Maren, it always ends the same-with her hiding the evidence and her mother packing up the car.īut when her mother abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, and finds much more than she bargained for along the way.įaced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she's looking for herself.The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. She didn't choose to be this way.īecause Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity, for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her-how they judge her. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. Now a major motion picture from Luca Guadagnino starring Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet and Mark Rylance, screenplay by David Kajganich!

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