wilson’s review published on Letterboxd:
my eyes hurt
Edit: from crying
Edit 2:
Guadagnino has crafted a masterpiece in Call Me By Your Name that is unparalleled in any other film that I have seen this year. You can really see the growth in his directing from one who was focused and interested in flash and awe through camera movement and action to one who shows care and love, a director who is so confident in his actors that he lets them command the scenes. Working with Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, you can see him working with more long takes and a more still camera. I deeply admire how Mukdeeprom was also able to shape light in this movie, after reading about the shooting conditions I'm in awe with how they were able to pull it off.
This movie shook me to my core. And I don't know if it is because I've never felt a love so deep or a loss so devastating that the taste of what Elio had hit me so hard. Characters like Elio and Oliver are so interior, and translating Elio's thoughts from book to screen was definitely a tough task, but Ivory, Guadagnino, Hammer and Chalamet knocked it out of the park. Never have characters felt so lived in, filled with passion, love, and confusion that one touch or tear can rip me to pieces.
I really don't know what else to say. Watch this film. Get ready to feel feelings. Let the Italian summer wash over you.