Trailer for Sundance sensation Call Me by Your Name

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Courtesy of Vulture.

Directed by Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash, I Am Love) and set in the Italian region of Lombardy during the early 1980s, Call Me by Your Name follows young Elio (breakout Timothée Chalamet), on the cusp of college and the child of two brainy aesthetes. During the summer we meet Elio, he finds himself bewitched by Oliver (Armie Hammer), a strapping American student who has come to assist Elio’s professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg) for several weeks.

For some weird reason Vulture misses to mention that the film is written by James Ivory. Oh and:
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Everybody has been glowing about this movie. I'm looking forward to it

I like both leads as well (only saw the kid in interstellar tho)
 
Ive been meaning to read the book.
The audiobook is narrated by Armie Hammer so I might go with that.

Which is a bit weird, because the book is narrated in the first person by the character played by Chalamet, reminiscing some decades later about that summer.
 
Can't wait to see it... I was just thinking about how many spectacular gay coming of age films we have gotten in the last decade or so... I think this will jump to near the top of the list. Will be seeing it at the cinema for sure.
 
that's a beautiful trailer. I really hope this movie doesn't get mired in controversy and outrage though, its already starting in the youtube comments with labeling it as pro-pedophilia due to one of the characters being 17.
 
that's a beautiful trailer. I really hope this movie doesn't get mired in controversy and outrage though, its already starting in the youtube comments with labeling it as pro-pedophilia due to one of the characters being 17.
Youtube comments already on it.

They're wrong though, obviously. AoC is 17 in many, many parts of the world.
 
that's a beautiful trailer. I really hope this movie doesn't get mired in controversy and outrage though, its already starting in the youtube comments with labeling it as pro-pedophilia due to one of the characters being 17.
I don't think that the endless cesspool that is youtube comments should be seen as indicative of anything.

It's just garbage people being garbage.
 
Might avoid the trailer but I've heard nothing but amazing things. Would be great to see Sufjan Stevens nominated for an oscar too.
 
I really hope this movie gets a quick retail release. I'm still waiting for The Handmaiden to come out lol. The almost guaranteed Oscar nomination this film will get will hopefully mean sooner rather than later
 
And the movie is set in Italy, where the legal age of consent is 14. Still very frowned upon.
Yes, it is lower than 17 there. I mean that 17 is within their AoC laws. It's more complicated than that though, and the AoC changes based on circumstances. I don't want to derail the thread with an AoC discussion, suffice to say the relationship presented in the story would be legal.

It would be a shame if the age of the two men were all people wanted to focus on if they want to criticize... there are far more eyebrow-raising films in that regard that are still perfectly legal.
 
I really hope this movie gets a quick retail release. I'm still waiting for The Handmaiden to come out lol. The almost guaranteed Oscar nomination this film will get will hopefully mean sooner rather than later

As you said, this is looking to make an awards run, so depending on the distributor, they may chose to hold it until awards season (winter).
 
I really hope this movie gets a quick retail release. I'm still waiting for The Handmaiden to come out lol. The almost guaranteed Oscar nomination this film will get will hopefully mean sooner rather than later

If it's an oscar hopeful they might hold the retail release until after it gets nominated.
 
that's a beautiful trailer. I really hope this movie doesn't get mired in controversy and outrage though, its already starting in the youtube comments with labeling it as pro-pedophilia due to one of the characters being 17.

I don't think it's because one of the characters is 17; I think it's because one of the characters looks really young. The trailer doesn't even mention the ages of the characters, and I doubt people having knee-jerk reactions are taking the time to look it up.

When I first heard about the book, I'd been recommended it by someone I'd met on Twitter while discussing another book. I did feel a little ambivalent about the recommendation, because of the stereotypes about predatory gay men and the size of the age gap at that age (seven years is different at 17 and 24 than it is at 47 and 54, say). But the actuality of the portrayal assuaged whatever concerns I had about it. There are people who just won't give it a chance, though.

Can't wait to see it... I was just thinking about how many spectacular gay coming of age films we have gotten in the last decade or so... I think this will jump to near the top of the list. Will be seeing it at the cinema for sure.

Not just coming of age films, either, but in general. Indiewire did a piece on anticipated queer cinema this year recently, and even while somehow managing to skip Una Mujer Fantástica they still highlighted quite a few.
 
This buzz reminds me an awful lot of Moonlight's last year. To think we might actually get two critically acclaimed gay-themed movies within a year of eachother. :)
 
And Carol in 2015

Which should have had a Best Picture nomination, too!

Woah, Scorsese's made a good film? Now this has got my attention.

Silence was beautiful-looking, though as a person who isn't religious it was difficult not to view the film at some kind of a remove. I suppose that was a benefit, because even with that it was rather relentlessly punishing viewing.
 
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