a Visual Poem !

Rating: 9/10 (20 February 2018)

A Summer Love like no Other...
This film isn't a movie C'est Une Oeuvre d'Art for the sake of art! Coming from one of my favorite books I've been waiting for it since two years now and it was everything I expected and more It's Erotic, lustful and sensual yet beautifully vulgar, aesthetically pleasing and engaging, established in this beautifully cultured bourgeoisie. It's a visual poem and both, a sophisticated pure love portrayed through high arts, classical music, poetry and sculpture and a Lustful, crude
and X-rated, steamy love as Elio and Oliver go from playing Love compositions and citing poems about entrapped love to Wild Love making and Peach* eating ;) all set in a colorful summer in this romantic village in Italy and the result is just beautiful, heart-warming and heart breaking too. I just loved how they grew to love each other more with each day as they got comfortable with their attraction and explored their love rather than boxing it in, going from defensive and tension to vulnerable and relieved and this was a joy to watch and Mr. Perlman's (Michael Stuhlbarg) lines to Elio at the end must be one of the most touching and evocative movie lines I've ever heard and the last scene is just heart-wrecking. A cénimatic masterpiece!