GREAT CINEMATOGRAPHY BUT STILL INAPPROPRIATE

Rating: 1/10 (21 July 2018)

I had to watch it 5 times. The first 3 I was absorbed by the filmography, the photography, the ILLUSION. BUT, then I woke up. The first problem is that Guadagnino pretty much "re-made" Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. The differences: the girl is a boy, the love interest is 20 years older AND he also become this hero that restore his "religious faith" which I found very peculiar in a romantic movie. Superb acting by Timothée Chalamet, he IS the movie. Best scene? When he play Bach at the Piano. The photography is also excellent and overall the movie is as good as the horrendous message it carries: it's ok for a kid to "come of age" by exploring sexuality with an adult, not only, but with mum and dad blessing. I have NOT read the book, but it's redondant and borderline offensive the father's speech about his regrets of not having tried. The movie also, maybe inadvertently, underline the predatory image of Hammer. His grooming the kid in the movie is frightening. The idillic bucolic scenery of Tuscany where orchards and the smell of apricots almost slow time and create this "intellectual's paradise" it's very trite and cliche'. The editing poorly done. Not a movie I would put on the market, and definelty not a movie I would nominated to an Oscar.