Thursday, March 1, 2018

In early 1962, an Italian director-writer started his career with the film La Commare Secca, this was just the beginning for a filmmaker a superb filmography and Passolini's helpers before starting his career.
Bernardo Bertolucci director of the controversial The Last Tango in Paris, 1900, La Luna and the award-winning The Last Emperor becomes the inspiration and mentor to another film director Luca Guadagnino who's getting a lot of award buzz with the film "Call Me By Your Name"

The film based on the 2007 novel by André Aciman tells the story of Elio (Timothée Chalamet) a Jewish-Italian-American seventeen-year-old boy who lives with his parents in the northern Italian countryside. His father Mr. Perlman ( Michael Stuhlbarg) a professor of archeology brings an archeology student Oliver (Armie Hammer) to work with him during the summer of 1983. Elio develops a curiosity in Oliver that later becomes an intense relationship where both of them will learn about life and love.

Call Me By Your Name it's a beautiful film exploring so many important values in life, Luca Guadagnino borrows great visual style and pacing from films like La Luna of Bertolucci and Maurice from James Ivory, who is the screenwriter of Call Me By Your Name.

The film location is perfect for this story, Italy is the place to be in love because it grows slowly around nature, happiness, like you feel those butterflies of the fir love. That's what's Elio feels for Oliver. The film is about family, strong relationships between mom and kids and dad and kids. The power of communicating our feelings and understand that life can hurt you.

This an all-star cast, specially Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, but the most ignored actor are Michael Stuhlbarg who it's been making rounds on Oscars movies a couple of years ago.

Call Me By Your Name is a great tribute to European films from the 70's and 80's

SPOILER ALERT: The best and most powerful scenes are the ending and the credits, not like a Marvel film...

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