A NICE FILM

Rating: 8/10 (19 March 2018)

Thankyou for making this film. It's a nice film which you can relate to (if you're gay) like fondling the other man's bulge, the sadness of saying goodbye to your man at a train station etc.
The father should have acted straighter. Two gay men in the same family is a crowd. Oliver, as being older, should have acted straighter and mature to protect his young love. Oliver is a bit willowy. As a well read woman, how come the mother does not realise what is going on between her son and their male guest? Oliver and Elio' trip to Rome is not very romantic - shouting, leaving Elio on his own, dancing, vomiting on the pavement - not very romantic. In the book, Oliver stands naked on the balcony of their Rome hotel room, Elio comes out and hugs him from behind and proceeds to make love to Oliver. They should show they have more sex as they are madly in love at that time. As Elio glances at Oliver (he's starting to have his feelings for Oliver), the old gardener stops by and shows Elio a massive fish he has just caught - it's like Elio has been caught by Oliver, like Elio has fallen for Oliver hook, line and sinker. This is like the scene in "For a lost soldier" where 2 young boys sit in a barn, one says he can't wait to go back home in the city, the other says he prefers to stay in the countryside (as he has fallen in love with a Canadian soldier, WW II, 1945) and he puts a piece of fishing net over him as if to say he's a caught fish now. Youtube: For A Lost Soldier.
If you don't like this film the first time, please watch it a few more times and I'm sure you will grow to like it and ignore a few things you don't like in the film.