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Wednesday 22 november 2017

In erotic ‘Call Me By Your Name,’

sunshine and summer love

By JAKE COYLE lamet) living in a splendor- we realized that it would
AP Film Writer ous northern Italian villa have been a teeny, teeny
NEW YORK (AP) — In the with his academic parents tiny movie in a very small
longest and most emo- (Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira amount of time, and that
tional close-up in “Call Me Casar). When a 25-year-old there was some inter-
By Your Name,” director graduate student, Oliver est in me doing it, he was
Luca Guadagnino asked (Armie Hammer), comes very generous,” said Gua-
In this Jan. 23, 2017 file photo, director Luca Guadagnino, for three variations, one per to stay with them, Elio finds dagnino. “He said, ‘I bless
clockwise from left, actor Armie Hammer, actor Michael take, from his young actor, himself drawn intractably this project if you do it.’”
Stuhlbarg, actor Timothee Chalamet and editor Walter Fasano
pose for a portrait to promote the film, “Call Me By Your Name”, Timothee Chalamet: dry, toward Oliver. That makes “Call Me By
during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. humid and wet. The film may sound specific Your Name” a unique fu-
Associated Press The Italian summer of “Call in its setting and sexual- sion of two international
Me By Your Name,” set ity, both of which are ren- filmmakers — one an ac-
in 1983, is unchanging: dered lushly. (One scene knowledged master of liter-
day-after-day of sunshine with a juicy peach has al- ary adaptation, the other
and languid bliss. But for ready grown famous.) But an ascending maestro of
the 17-year-old Elio (Cha- the spell of “Call Me By sensory detail.
lamet), who’s awakening Your Name” comes from The movie’s other binary
to the beauty and heart- its grasp of universal sensa- relationship was between
break of love, the weather tions — of new, uncertain the experienced Hammer
is churning. feelings; of the nervous and the newcomer Cha-
To capture it all, Gua- thrill of opening up yourself lamet, who credits Ham-
dagnino elected for sim- to another; of feeling your mer with providing him a
plicity. A single 35mm lens world expand. “road map” for his budding
for the whole production. “Regardless of your iden- career. They spoke at the
Minimal cuts. And one dev- tity, your orientation or who Toronto International Film
astating close-up. you’re sitting next to in the Festival earlier this fall with
“I shot this on film so if you lis- theater, when you watch adulation about each oth-
ten closely, you will hear the two human beings so vul- er, boasting of their friend-
sound of the camera whirl- nerably fall in love with ship and reminiscing about
ing,” says Guadagnino. “I each other in a sweet, ten- their halcyon shoot in Italy.
love it. Maybe I’m a bit of der way, it’s almost impos- Their days: morning espres-
a perverted cineaste of the sible for you not to remem- sos, countryside bike rides,
20th century, but the sound ber the first time you were never-ending meals.
of film running through the in a situation like that,” says “I will carry the experience
wheels of the camera is Hammer. “That’s one of the for the rest of my life,” said
erotic to me.” great unifying things about Hammer. “I’ve never been
An intoxicating eroticism — this film. Humans are hu- challenged or pushed as
of love, of cinema — runs mans and love is love.” hard this movie required
deep in “Call Me By Your And if you’re going to me. It is so much about
Name.” Since its unveiling make a movie about love, vulnerability and so much
at the Sundance Film Fes- you might as well shoot it in about opening yourself up
tival, Gaudagnino’s sen- the Italian summer. Gua- and giving that to some-
suous and insightful com- dagnino, the Italian film- one else, and having them
ing-of-age tale has been maker of “I Am Love” and receive and give back. It
swooned over like few films “A Bigger Splash,” shifted happens in every scene
this year. The film, which the location slightly to his where these two interact.
Sony Pictures Classics will home turf, in Crema. It’s what the process of
open in limited release Fri- The project began with pro- making the film felt like.”
day, is considered an Acad- ducers Peter Spears and “It felt very fluid,” said Cha-
emy Awards front-runner. Howard Rosenman, who lamet. “You almost forgot
On Tuesday, it garnered a obtained the book’s rights. about the camera some-
leading six Independent They reached out to Ivory times.”
Spirit Awards nominations. (“Howards End,” ‘’Remains Ivory’s script called for
“It’s life,” wrote Vanity Fair of the Day”) to executive more nudity than is in the
of the movie, “messy and producer, and later came finished film. (Both stars had
brilliant.” to him with the suggestion contract clauses prohibit-
“Call Me By Your Name” is that he and Guadagnino ing full frontal nudity.) And
based on the novel by An- co-direct. But that proved Ivory has sometimes sound-
dre Aciman and scripted an unappealing prospect ed disappointed that “Call
by James Ivory, the 89-year- to investors and insurance Me By Your Name” lacks a
old filmmaker whose col- providers. more explicit depiction of
laborations with Ismail “It was decided, probably lovemaking between men.
Merchant are renown. It’s because I’m so ancient, “It seems to me there’s
about an intelligent, pre- I guess, that Luca should quite a bit of nudity.
cocious young man (Elio direct it by himself,” Ivory Maybe not as much as in
can speak Italian, French says, chuckling. some of my films, but it’s
and English, and plays a “We were disappointed certainly there,” he says
mean piano, as can Cha- by the market. When now.q