One moment where Oliver gives Elio a foot massage is far more erotic than the book and film’s most famous sex scene, which involves a peach. What makes “Call Me by Your Name” so damn seductive is how Guadagnino immerses viewers in the lives of its characters. Sometimes the level of censorship we suffer comes from within.” “I never had a necessity to come out because I was always the person I wanted to be, and that was never interfered with,” Guadagnino added. I had a camera, I was very alone and had few friends. I was really in my own mind and developing into the wonderment of what I wanted to do - become a filmmaker.
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I am the third and last child in my family, which led me to be independent. For instance, I was a kid who was directly and indirectly told that Italian culture was the most important thing. The way I felt guided or misguided by them was less vocal. “My parents were not like Elio’s, and I wasn’t like Elio. Fathers should see this film, and they should be crying.”įor Guadagnino, the romance between Elio and Oliver was not autobiographical. “Call Me by Your Name” is also memorable for how it portrays the relationship between Elio and his father (Michael Stuhlbarg).Īciman said he hopes “every single parent watches the father-son scene and says that they just learned something that they call their son to come over and speak to them. I wanted the relationship to be as normal as possible - with none of the questions, or prejudices.” The word ‘gay’ does not appear in the film. It forces you to accept the fact that there is love between men. The love between Elio and Oliver is the central focus of the film, and Aciman is particularly invested in how he presents it. What is the measure of our desires, whatever the gender? My agenda is to tell the stories of my characters.” “I am more interested in psychoanalysis, and the unconscious of people,” he said. Guadagnino emphasizes sensuality, not sexuality, and creates tremendous emotion.
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This includes moments when Oliver touches Elio’s bare shoulder, or when Elio places his hand on Oliver’s crotch after boldly declaring his love for the older man.īut the magic of the film version of “Call Me by Your Name” is how it will make viewers ache along with Elio as this lush romance unfolds. His obsessions and fantasies are difficult to depict on screen but Guadagnino mines incredible sexual tension between his romantic leads. The novel is written from Elio’s perspective, and is highly internalized. “Five-10 pages of prose gets distilled in two seconds, and without a voice-over, which is an easy out, it’s all displayed on the actors’ faces.” “Film is a different medium ,” Aciman added. You have to make decisions I am unable to make. It takes skill to distill 270 pages of a novel into an 80-90-page screenplay. “The best scenes in the film are transcribed right out of the book. However, he acknowledged the film’s strong points. Ivory is currently the favorite to take home an Oscar for his work.Īciman admitted that, while he might write a film one day, penning the screenplay to his novel and winning an Oscar was not a priority. Gay filmmaker James Ivory (“Maurice”) adapted the novel into the screenplay. While Aciman is an accomplished writer, he decided not to work on the film’s screenplay.
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It was an absolutely amazing experience.” “The wait became so long that I stopped believing it would ever happen. Novelist Aciman echoed this sentiment in a separate Skype interview. Clearly, I like the book and understood the book, but it wasn’t in the book that I found the answer to make the film, it was the necessity to make it.”
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“That’s why and how I became the director. “It was a call of duty,” he said in a phone interview. It took 10 years for this film to get made, but gay filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (“I Am Love” and “A Bigger Splash”) persevered. 22 at UA King of Prussia, AMC Voorhees and on both screens at the Ritz East, depicts the slow-burning - but scorchingly intense - relationship between Oliver, (Armie Hammer), a 20-something summer intern, and Elio (Timothée Chalamet), a 17-year-old, in Northern Italy, 1983. Oscar buzz and sold-out screenings have accompanied ecstatic reviews. The exceptional, extraordinary, swoon-inducing screen version of Aciman’s dazzling love story between two young men is already a critical and commercial success. For André Aciman, author of the 2007 novel “Call Me by Your Name,” that dream has come true. It is the dream of writers to have their novel become a smash-hit film.