![]() ![]() Desire, and the twin perils of speaking or failing to speak it, haunt every sun-drenched frame. I prefer the film because it so stunningly visualises its exploration of the ambiguities and shades of intimacy, underpinned and deepened by profoundly premodern meditations on friendship.įrom the film’s opening credits, superimposed on a series of fragmented Hellenistic statues, with eyeless and therefore ambiguous faces, sinuous limbs and youthful torsos, the audience is invited to cruise the past. ![]() Not because Aciman’s novel is inferior: it, too, is a fine work, full of acute insights into the nature of desire, first love, selfhood. Perhaps unusually for an academic, I prefer this film to its source: André Aciman’s 2007 novel. ![]() ![]() It is nominated in three categories: Best Picture, Best Actor (Chalamet), and Best Adapted Screenplay (James Ivory). The film has received rave reviews from critics and the public alike, largely because of the beautifully nuanced performances of its lead actors, Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Luca Guadagnino’s inspired direction. One of the films most hotly tipped for Oscars success this year – and in my opinion most deserving of it – is Call Me By Your Name. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |