this is italian director luca guadagnino�*s first film set in the usa. coming—of—age novel set in the 1980s, has a kerouackian on the road feel as two young drifters who have a bitter urge to eat human flesh fall in love against the backdrop of the american midwest. every creature does what it must to survive. like the recent movie version of where the crawdads sing, this is another narrative that focuses on outsiders. you don't think i'm a bad person? all i think is that i love you. canadian actress taylor russell plays the protagonist maren, abandoned by everyone close to her because of her affliction. the way you enter through this picture frame of cannibalism to the pure love of these people and who they actually are and the purity of heart within them is really brilliant, i think. what was it like? a rush. i want to leave the interpretation to people when they see the film, but to add to the outsider experience, a lot of people feel now to tell a story of two people who have a curse that they have to grapple with, these two young people, and that th