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Apr 12, 2018
My name or yours? elio + vr = oliver. He came/saw/conquered and left.... A summer fling for the older-young man and a devastating heart-ache for the teenager. Yet another 'poignant' coming-of-age story, and a coming-out of sorts for Italian/Algerian director Luca Guadagnino. NOT a fan of his I am Love (visually lush but sterile) nor Bigger Splash (a remake of La Piscine with Delon/Schneider/Ronet/Birkin now with Ralph Fiennes et.al.). James Ivory could not quite save the script; read book by Aciman and thought it was better. For a more mature Ivory adaptation (his first after Merchant's passing) of a real story, check out Sir Anthony Hopkins kissing his Japanese 'adopted' son/lover in The City of Your Final Destination.