Beautiful story about gay love under the Italian sun

Rating: 7/10 (20 September 2017)

This movie has gotten very good reviews, and I was excited when I saw it during a film festival in Oslo, even opening film. The story takes place in Italy in 1983. A wealthy Italian family receives an American male researcher who will live with them for 6 weeks. The meeting between him and the family's teenage son is the foundation of the story in this film. The film depicts the tension between the two, which eventually evolve into a close friendship. A friendship that evolves into a sexual relationship. The film is beautifully portrayed. The two men unfold in a beautiful landscape. But film is slow and briefly depicts how the contact between the two evolves. In my opinion, the film could be have shorter, and would have benefited on that. It's a too slow and somewhat tedious. The film's content is also not very new, but it's beautifully filmed. It also reflects on a theme that shows that we are not going back so many years back before gay relationships were taboo and that such love had to be hidden. In addition, this is also about an adult man initiating a relationship with a teenage boy. There is solid craftsmanship in both filming, acting and role- playing. But the direction could have been tighter, in my opinion, and the film is too long. But I still enjoyed seeing it.