Tweeting about Call Me by Your Name (2017) - to which #UCFF gave scant time*...
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29 November
Some Tweeting about Call Me by Your Name (2017) - which #UCFF did not have the will to watch much of*...
Guadagnino can’t be bothered to imagine (or to urge Ivory to imagine) what they might actually talk about while sitting together alone. Scenes [...] push the plot ahead and then cut out just as they get rolling, [since he] displays no interest in the characters, only in the story— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 29, 2017
In 'The idea of the film is earnest, substantial, moving, and quite beautiful—in its idea, its motivation, its motivating principle. It offers, in theory, a sort of melancholy romantic realism', @tnyfrontrow persuades of the intention behind @CMBYNmovie :https://t.co/p5blnzUob5 pic.twitter.com/LETt7mqLUo— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 29, 2017
Armie Hammer (Oliver) and Timothée Chalamet (Elio), after Elio has taken him on a cycle-ride to town for the bank (a town that Oliver already seems to know pretty well... ?)
End-notes :
* Walking out of the film after around 30-35 minutes was a gut feeling that it was set in its path, and one that Richard Brody's review for The New Yorker well puts, for #UCFF, into words : The elision of the characters’ mental lives renders “Call Me by Your Name” thin and empty, renders it sluggish ; the languid pace of physical action is matched by the languid pace of ideas, and the result is an enervating emptiness.
He goes on to say that 'it goes on and on' :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 6, 2017
Fortunately, #UCFF has a different remit, and so could skip out after 25-30 mins ! :)
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
