Luca Guadagnino says Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet will return for a Call Me By Your Name sequel
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It’s been quite a while since we heard anything about director Luca Guadagnino’s plans to make a sequel to his 2017 adaptation of Call Me By Your Name, but… well, there’s not much else going on in Hollywood, so let’s check in. Speaking with Italy’s La Repubblica (via Variety), Guadagnino recently offered an update on his sequel, saying that he had just made a trip to the U.S. to meet with a screenwriter when the coronavirus started to hit, and though the meeting apparently went well enough that Guadagnino refuses to say the writer’s name (it’s someone he loves, that’s all we know), it all had to be put on hold while this whole pandemic thing plays out.
One thing he would say, though, is that “everyone will be in the movie.” That came after he specifically highlighted the work of Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel and “the other actors,” so it seems like everybody who was in Call Me By Your Name will be coming back in some capacity. Last March, Hammer said that he’d “be an asshole” if he refused to do a sequel, but he suggested at the time that it would actually be pretty unlikely. Now, assuming Guadagnino isn’t overselling this screenwriter meeting, it seems like it really will get made at some point.
At this point, it’s still unclear if the movie sequel would follow the plot of Find Me, author André Aciman’s 2019 sequel to his original book. That one takes place a decade after the original, with Elio’s father (Stuhlbarg’s character in the movie) having a sexy adventure of his own with a younger woman before Elio and Oliver eventually reunite. Samantha Nelson wasn’t a particularly big fan in her A.V. Club review, offering the damning slam that an adaptation of it would “feel like a late-career Woody Allen flick.”
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I’d really love to hear a breakdown from someone about why CMBMN was such a big deal. I’ll admit the acting was good and it was beautifully shot, but it felt emotionally empty. I’d love to hear why it worked for others. (I got lost early. Even though I’m probably a snooty intellectual, dear god were these characters obnoxious. The relationship between the dad and the son was just over-the-top, and it went downhill from there. I have watched foreign and historic films where family relationships didn’t feel so abnormal.)
As a fan of the very good book, I found the movie bewildering. Armie Hammer looks way too old, and the book is very ambigious about the morality of the affair and Elio is very damaged by it. Fans of the movie see it as this lush romance, which I find really strange. Sorry, that didn’t answer your question. But I do think it appeals to the kind of people who, back when I was in high school, thought Morissey was a great prophet.
I want to read the book now. Good to know that the source material might be different. And, yeah, I know it’s somehow gauche to discuss it but I found the age gap to be horrifyingly awful. I don’t even get it. I am very pro-LBGT and I have two kids of different sexes. I’m fine with them being anything and being with most anyone (except Trump supporters and Scientologists, probably). But if one of them is under 18 and is getting it on with someone that much older, there’s gonna be an issue.
Oliver is much more sympathetic in the book, comes off much younger and is constantly being framed as a mirror image of Elio. Their names are anigrams and I even wonder if in early drafts it was Fight Club kind of thing and they were the same person (which wouldn’t really be terribly LGBTQ positive). That seems crazy if you have only seen the movie, but the book talks a lot about time and place in a way that makes that more plausible. Anyhoo, yeah, the movie is pretty but kind of uncomfortable and not really that romantic.
I mean…self-love is inherently homosexual unless you have disassociative identity disorder 😛
Meh. Age of consent varies around the world (in Italy, where the film takes place, it’s around 13-14).There’s also the fact that for many queer people, their first sexual encounters/relationships were with older people, as they could “show them the ropes.” This goes back to ancient Greece. It’s not a justification, but it’s important context that modern “PC” thought should accommodate.
It totally comes off as justification for having sex with a minor
Why does it have to be “justified?” Can it not just be a simple reality being depicted? It’s not like anyone was being abused. And again, the age of consent in Italy is 13/14.
There’s definitely some mental and emotional abuse of him being used as some dude’s summer fling. And the fact that you keep bringing up the Italian age of consent doesn’t somehow make it less predatory and creepy.
anybody who has ever used the phrase “age of consent” in a serious inquiry or as a defense or explanation has some soul searching to do.but I agree that ending of the movie was amazing
This movie had a scene where a 17 year-old kid fucks and ejaculates into a peach. ART (apparently)!
I just adored it, it captured the dreaminess and had a sincerity in the uncertainty of that first queer love.
I hope I could help, but since I absolutely loathed the movie, I, if anything, share your bewilderment.I’d disagree about the acting being good. Chalamet does alright, but Hammer is a hack (the very fact that every review raved about how “suprisingly good” he was in this film tells a lot), and Amira Casar, an uneven actress at best, was not at her best (and why have her character smoke when she obviously doesn’t and can’t?)It so often felt like a gay Woody Allen flick that I was hoping it’d never get a sequel. But here we go.
once I saw Juliette Binoche in “Betrayal” and they were making her do an English accent and she COULD NOT and nobody just said… “how about she just is french?” Like, if the repression of the british milieu is so essential to that play that you can’t possibly make the character a french woman then cast somebody else, personally I thought having her be French might have helped (why she would buy into her husband’s chilly persona and then fight against it)
I agree, some decisions are just … weird.In the case of Binoche, maybe slightly less than for Casar: I’m guessing co-production deals with a French company imposed the presence of a French actress (some can actually do an English accent well, like Cotillard, for instance, although she can’t do anything else right, like, acting.)
this was a play on broadway
Oh.No reason whatsoever then, you’re right.
I saw an early preview, nearly a dress rehearsal. The dialect coach was sitting right next to me. His legal pad was COMPLETELY FILLED.
Did you steal his stroke medicine? 🙂
Is it really that hard to find a glowing review that would answer your question? It seems to me this would be an easy thing to understand based on plenty that has been written about it.
I have read several reviews, and no, I haven’t. They’re all pretty conclusory in discussing what works. If you think about it, that’s how most reviews (from official reviewers) work.
The movie wasn’t great but had a killer ending.
I bought the family relationship way more than you did and I think that’s the crux of the difference. I never found the characters obnoxious (or, more accurately, off-puttingly obnoxious.) I find the family scenes to be very heartfelt (the translation scene in particular is a gem). I think the fact that the film is a queer coming of age story that isn’t really about coming out (to anyone other than oneself) helps. That it also features a family that is pretty accepting in general helps.It’s shot like a reverie, which I think goes a fair bit of distance to making the age gap (exacerbated by casting Armie Hammer, who’s about a decade too old) less problematic than it otherwise would be. I don’t think it needs a sequel (and the book sequel, Find Me, really reads like the combination of Woody Allen wish-fulfillment and CMBYM fan fiction)
That’s helpful. (I also love your avatar name.) I’m gonna read the book and give it another go.
I mean, it’s all about subjectivity. How you feel about the movie, yes. But Call Me By Your Name is about nostalgia, the excitement and newness of first loves, and how we frame those things in our memory. That’s part of why I love the casting of Armie Hammer against Timothée Chalamet. The movie’s from Elio’s point of view. And even though 17 and 24 isn’t that huge a difference, it certainly feels that way when you’re a teenager. So, of course Oliver looks way older than Elio, who still very much looks like a kid. Elio feels young and inexperienced—which he is—while, to him, Oliver looks like the statues they dig up with Michael Stuhlbarg. Hell, the movie opens with a montage of photographed statues, where these decaying works of art can be immortalized at a moment of utter beauty. It’s not jus about remembering, but how we remember. Which is what the dad tells Elio in that conversation at the end. So, if that speaks to you, then great. But if not, well, that’s fine, too.
17 vs. 24 is a huge difference. For one, if you’re 24 trolling around for 17 year olds to fuck, you’re a fucking asshole.
I’ll do my best, but if it didn’t work for you then it just didn’t. For the people it did work for, it worked very very well. I will say that while I loved the movie the first time, there was a lot that I didn’t really pick up until the second time I saw it – the emotions and dialogue are very subtle. For me it really captured the excitement, anxiety, obsession and elation of first love. I guess I can see why you might find the family obnoxious, but I found them to be so charming. I loved their characters and the way they related to each other. When it came out in the middle of a bitter winter, it was this idyllic world I could escape to for a couple of hours.
Thank you. That was very helpful.
I agree with you. I do get why people might love it, but I found basically every one an unlikable bore. It did have a nice atmosphere, and I won’t begrudge anyone who loves it, but I personally felt like it was pretty overrated.
Call Me Whatever You Want, Won’t Matter, Cause I’m Still A Straight Dude Breakin’ Hearts And Doing Gay Tourism In Europe Before My Hetero-Ass Wedding For Shits And Giggles
I also shake peoples hands using manequin arms. It helps me keep things both social and distant and oh my gosh I just figured out what social distancing means!
Armie & Timothee will give each other Corona virus and die in each other’s arms. Cue theme music. Reach for tissues.
Call Me By Your Name 2: Name and Shame
Continue to Call Me By Your Name
Please, Your Father Was Mr Williams. Call Me By Your First Name.
Now Call Me By Your Middle Name
No, You Call ME By YOUR Name
Hi Armie!
Call Me By Your Name 2: ACHOO Boogaloo
Luca has made it pretty clear that he won’t follow Find Me, and at most will meet somewhere in the middle (thank God, that book was awful). I don’t need a sequel, but I will absolutely be there to see this.
It will be called “Call Me Maybe.”
I think it should be called after that great Allman Brothers album: Eat a PeachThe movie was nowhere near as good as its praise (predatory age difference, the father’s good monologue about the mother came out of nowhere because they never grounded any sense of lack of fulfillment in that relationship, the peach which came off like the scissoring in “Blue is the Warmest Color” like something basically nobody would do), but it had some escapist moments, some pangs and longing, and it had that FUCKING AMAZING Psychedelic Furs song. I’m putting that song on right now. I am surprisingly (to those who know me) like 100% heterosexual, but Armie Hammer in tube socks at least makes me go “I get it”
yeah nobody ever does weird sex shit, sex is only normal stuffseriously i don’t get this argument. i think most ER nurses would strongly disagree re: your assertions on what young men won’t do with fruit.
I guess underage sex isn’t for everybody (calls fbi)
underage? that peach was ripe, your honor.
Yeahhhh agreed. I have a family member who’s a colorectal surgeon and…..people do things you would not thing were possible. And then you add onto it the fact that he’s a teenager
yeah like…i remember reading proper fruit-fucking instructions that had probably gone through at least a few edits for readability on 4chan when i was like 13. coming on a peach is a bit avant-garde but hey he’s european.if i really wanted to go out on a limb i’d say the scissoring is plausible too, if not probable, because i mean…everyone dry humps. but also who studies sex scenes for plot holes? i’m pretty sure that cable guy is unaccredited.