A Perfect Film

Rating: 10/10 (9 May 2018)

Those who have written negative reviews of this film appear to have found it slow or boring. In some ways, you could argue that nothing of huge import happens, no shootings, no explosions, no space stations falling to earth, no apocalyptic events. So, yes, for some people it must have been boring. But if you are the sort of person who could lie in a hammock beneath a baking Mediterranean sun and study the way the sunlight falls on the tanned skin of someone you passionately want but can hardly bare to stay in the room with, and never find that study or those passionate desires boring, then I suggest you would enjoy this film. Not just enjoy it, but live it along with Oliver and Elio. This is a remarkable movie. I've not been as captivated by anything for a very long time. Isn't this everyone's story of first love? Every single scene, every frame is to be studied, the dusty Italian village streets, the fields burning under the sun... the acting is so incredible (especially from Timothee Chalamet) that it's hard to believe it was just acting. There is not one single moment in this movie that isn't perfect. This is the film that should replace Brokeback Mountain as the "greatest gay movie ever made". This is love, passion, need, frustration, grief captured in a fleeting moment on the screen. See it. You'll never forget it.