"We wasted so many days"
Spring and part of the summer of 1983 (when this film is set) was the beginning of an important period of my life – although I didn’t realise it at the time.
Aged somewhere between main characters Elio and Oliver, I spent several months living in Italy as part of my University course. It was only the second time I had been abroad on my own, and never for such an extended period of time.…
A powerful film with some excellent performances, and a script which grips.
Girl, please. You gotta let this go now. Bitterness will do you no good.
Also, this is just a music video. The song tells the story, the video adds nothing. It might technically be ‘a short film’ but it is not A Short Film.
The couple sitting next to me in the cinema were in their 20s, and spent the film engaged in an indoor picnic - dipping their pitta bread into hummus and chomping crunchy, healthy apples.
These, I imagine, are the ideal target audience for this film. Whereas ...
I had absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for any of the characters in this 'story'; self-centered, old enough to know better, aimless twenty-somethings who basically need to get over themselves. I used to share…
