With 4 nominations for the 2018 Oscars, "Call me by your name" offers us a splendid song to life through a gay story without drama or tragedy
GAYLES.TV.- "Call me by your name" it was a project of the veteran director James Ivory (Maurice, What's left of the day) that has finally assumed the production and the writing of the script. The address has fallen on Luca Guadagnino, who through suggestive images gives us a masterly lesson in cinema narrating the story of a passion through a slow, elegant camera that suggests more than shows.
Based on the novel by André Aciman, the film tells us of the discovery of love, of the first love, of the rapture that pushes us to consummate it and the pain of its loss. But the value of "Call me by your name" as LGTBI film is that it is not a homosexual tragedy to use, as one of its protagonists declares, Armie Hammer a Vanity Fair: "I loved that about the movie. No one is sick, nobody is beaten by peasants. No one is rejected by his family or his friends. Nobody has to come out of the closet and then suffer the consequences ". Loving someone of the same sex does not have to be an impossible odyssey and the film team has insisted on the thesis that it is not a film queer, despite the fact that Luca Guadagnino is openly gay, but quite the opposite: a fresh, sensual, exquisite work that narrates the encounter between two people and the discovery of love and desire regardless of their gender or sexual orientation.
The film is supported by four Oscar nominations, which are those of best movie, adapted script, main actor for the interpretation of young Elio in charge of Timothée Chalamet and best original song for "Mistery of Love" by indie Sufjan Stevens.
But the fact is that although it did not win any of the precious statuettes, "Call me by your name" is a film of forced vision, a luxury for the senses and the vindication of a series of precious elements that run through the film and They are very dear to Luca: the erudiction that splashes family conversations in a fluid and intelligent way, the music that becomes another protagonist of the plot and the enveloping summer landscape of a sensual Italy that permeates the senses through the screen. In short, hedonism, enjoyment of life, Carpe Diem of a decade, that of the 80 full of ruptures and vital demands.
And it is that the only thing that lovers face is time in all its forms, that of a summer that passes too quickly, that of the age difference between them and that of the various vital moments ... but not all those elements They understand sexual choice, because time is something that concerns all human beings, that traps and pushes us all.
We could highlight so many things in this film that we would not end the text, but it is worth highlighting the unprejudiced way in which the age difference is faced, including the fact that Elio is a minor and how that difference does not imply power roles. or submission, it is simply mutual fascination. That's why we end with the wonderful dialogue that gives the film its name: "Call me by your name, I'll call you for mine", because it is necessary to weave complicities so as not to give explanations, because the summer is too short to do so, because only Elio's anguish weighs in asking his lover “Why didn't you throw clues at me? (…) We have lost so many days ".
Here you have the trailer and the video clip for "Mystery of Love", the nominated song and some advice, don't miss it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1omjxrlquIE
Sources: lavanguardia.com, eldiario.es
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