Set during an endless Italian summer,this ravishing drama starring Armie Hammer and Timothe Chalamet is imbued with a sophisticated sensualityThe debt to pleasure is deferred in exquisite style for this ravishingly heavenly movie set in Northern Italy in the early 80s: a coming-of-age appreciate sage between a precocious teenage boy and a slightly older man. Their summer romance is saturated with poetic languor and a deeply sophisticated sensuality.
The film is directed by Luca Guadagnino (who made I Am appreciate and A Bigger Splash) and adapted from the novel by André Aciman by James Ivory, who had originally been slated to co-direct and has a producer credit. Ivory’s presence inevitably calls to mind his film version of EM Forster’s Maurice, and to which this is frankly superior. For me,it brought back Alan Hollinghurst novels such as The Folding Star and The Spell. Call Me By Your Name is an erotic pastoral that culminates in a quite incredible speech by Michael Stuhlbarg, playing the boy’s father. It’s a compelling dramatic gesture of wisdom, or understanding and what I can only call moral goodness.
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Source: guardian.co.uk