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Armie Hammer & Timothée Chalamet find love in Call Me By Your Name (2017)
SaraB:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 26, 2018, 10:00:27 am ---Finishing the novel last night has left me in a really peculiar mood this morning--even for a Monday.
I think part of the trouble is that reading the novel has disinterred things from my own past that I would have preferred stayed buried.
I should probably be discussing this on my own blog rather than here.
I should find out if the film is still playing in Philadelphia, except that I will be away this weekend, so I'm not sure there's a point to that, unless I can determine if it's still playing Easter Monday. I could possibly see it then.
As it happens, I'm acquainted with someone whose family background is Italian Jewish. He was born and raised in Israel; I don't know when his family moved there from Italy. He has his Green Card. He married a U.S. citizen (I am well acquainted with the marriage because I was his husband's Best Man!).
But anyway, not yet having seen the movie, it's his voice I "hear" as I read the text, and his face I "see" rather than the voice and face of Timothee Chalamet. (I do "hear" and "see" Armie Hammer, probably because I've already seen him elsewhere.)
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That’s interesting, Jeff, that you see your friend's face. I wonder if he will be obliterated by Timothée when you do see it!
As for being in a peculiar mood, it certainly keeps happening to me, and with the book perhaps even more than the film. They are so intertwined for me now, but I think it’s the Ghost Spots section that affects me so much, even though I don’t think it’s digging up anything buried for me... The more I read it, the more I find little details of how that summer reverberates with both of them, and it’s heartbreaking.
I do know that I’m missing my husband (who died nearly 5 years ago) very much at the moment, and am a little emotional about everything, in a good way I think. It’s a little bit similar to my reaction to Brokeback, though not nearly so extreme. Michael was alive then, and was amazed by the whole thing - as was I - though he was very tolerant about it!
I hope in the end CMBYN is a good experience for you. I think it will stay as one of my best ever films.
Front-Ranger:
Did you see the funny video in The Onion about the peach scene, or scenes? :laugh:
SaraB:
I found it, but it wouldn’t play. :(
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 26, 2018, 01:12:16 pm ---Did you see the funny video in The Onion about the peach scene, or scenes? :laugh:
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https://www.theonion.com/the-producers-of-call-me-by-your-name-discuss-their-f-1823427294
SaraB:
That worked! Very clever - pitch perfect!😂 Thanks, Paul.
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