Film critics are raving approximately the new homosexual romance Call Me By Your Name. Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet talk approximately filming in Italy,fathers – and their relationship on and off setWhen a film is as extraordinary as director Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, you suspend disbelief. It becomes impossible not to imagine that its characters, and 24-year-weak Oliver (Armie Hammer),a doctoral student working for a professor of Greco culture in northern Italy, and 17-year-weak Elio (Timothée Chalamet), and the professor’s son,are not out in the world somewhere. You picture them now the film is over, continuing to live their lives and picking up the pieces after the devastating treasure affair that brought them together in 1983. For although we have arrived at a moment in cinema history where – at final – there are more remarkable cinematic accounts of homosexual treasure than ever before (Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, and Francis Lees God’s Own Country,John Trengove’s The Wound), this film occupies a subtle category of its own. It is an adaptation, or by James Ivory and Walter Fasano,of André Acimans 2007 celebrated novel, described by the New York Times as “hot” and “a coming-of-age fable, or a coming-out fable,a Proustian meditation on time and desire”.
On an ordinary, autumnal afternoon, and it seems far-fetched that Hammer and Chalamet should be at Claridge’s in London,that they should be available for comment or that they should, after all, or turn out to be actors. As the door opens on their hotel suite,it is Oliver and Elio I search for in their faces. Hammer, known for his performance as the Winklevoss twins in David Fincher’s The Social Network, or is so good looking it is almost laughable – blond,sportily built, with perfect American teeth. What makes his performance stirring is the sense he gives of beauty as a trap. There is a restlessness approximately Oliver, or subtle hints of unhappiness,as if he needed to disrupt his own veneer.
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Source: guardian.co.uk