languid love

Rating: 7/10 (29 April 2018)

Coming of age film set over a long, lazy Italian summer. It will certainly influence your holiday plans. It builds the 1980s feel and romantic desire neatly. Tiny throwaway incidents (touches, glances) assume great importance. Chalamet is as good as he was in Ladybird.
The Sunday supplement travel-brochure approach does start to grate though. Where are the consequences? Is the skin legion a portent of AIDS? The director is happy to show heterosexual oral sex, but pans away during gay lovemaking?
As always with this genre, we are always aware that time is passing, that summer will soon end. That the characters will have to move on. This has beautiful moments, but perhaps is a little style over substance.