Fans of Call Me By Your Name beware — Luca Guadagnino’s follow up to last year’s adored tale of tender romance swaps the heat of rural Italy for Cold War Berlin, and young lovers for ancient witches. There are no peaches in Suspiria, but bones crack, flesh rots and a shit-tonne of heads explode. Which is not […]
The summer of 1983, hidden in a stunning villa, somewhere in northern Italy with hidden pockets of secrecy to escape to; this is where director Luca Guadagnino lays the scene for his dazzling romance Call Me By Your Name. Following the principle style of his other films I Am Love (2009), and A Bigger Splash […]
“Somewhere in Italy”; exactly where is not important to the beauty of this small town but nowhere near small-minded romance. The perfect rural seclusion allows for unbreakable bonds of friendship and, indeed, sensual love to grow. Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), the son of an esteemed academic, and Oliver (Armie Hammer), appointed by Elio’s father to […]