'Call Me By Your Name': Love, Their Way
Luca Guadagnino's lush adaptation of Andre Aciman's novel about a teenage prodigy's first love affair with a visiting grad student is raw and real and profoundly, indelibly moving.
There is a scene near the end of Luca Guadagnino's breathless, besotted, achingly intimate — and just plain aching -- Call Me By Your Name that starts like hundreds of others have, and do, and will, in cinematic depictions of same-sex attraction.
After midnight. A deserted city street. Two men — in this case, soulful 17-year-old prodigy Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and disquietingly symmetrical 24-year-old graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer) — steal into an alley to make out. They are blithely happy, and drunk, and horny; they forget to check the perimeter,
