Beautiful, compelling, almost haunting - the feeling it drives stays with you long after it’s over.
Delivered with sensuality and empathy, (never smutty despite the adult theme), this is a sensitive depiction of love-learned-and-lost that will appeal to anyone, regardless of your ‘orientation’. The father’s speech towards the end left me in pieces…
Extraordinary casting: actors and cinematography perfectly capture the season, the era, the setting and the slow-build chemical tension, before plummeting emotion towards the inevitable ending. Can’t imagine anyone other than Charlamet depicting Elio with his beautiful, naive, transparent and conflicted emotions, or Armie Hammer nailing Oliver’s arrogant yet vulnerable charisma (in my opinion Hammer’s best performance ever).
A must-see recommendation; for me this is an iconic classic.