Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017) by Rsfrsrf — 17 Dec 2017

I came here to give an undoubtly +A to this masterpiece fulfilled of feelings, an incredible acting, script perfection, huge work on cinematography, and a mark that Luca is one of the strongest cinema directors of this year, reminded me so much to what I felt with Io sono l´amore with Tilda Swinton, a film Luca made like 7 years ago. But the reviews here are proof that this is not a film that Hollywood, Oscars, are ready to accept. 70% of the negative reviews are not even reviews, are comments alledging to pedophilia, and it´s quite obvious that this comes from the fact that is a queer film. On the other hand, I quote a Slate article: "In trying to think through these issues in Call Me by Your Name, I called Joseph Fischel, a Yale scholar who has written on the messy politics of age and consent for Slate. He noted our society’s intense focus on age and sexuality is a relatively recent notion, not a long-settled one, and that while the law may have a legitimate need to be blunt and rigid, our art does not. In my view, it’s reasonable to be disturbed by the unconventional relationship in Call Me by Your Name, but it’s not reasonable to say the movie endorses pedophilia, or really any kind of power-based abuse, just because it depicts that relationship. If we go down that censorious and unnuanced path with our art, very little will survive the trip.".

There are films more related to pedophilia, or that "age-gap" argument, and they are not even pointed. Like... Idk, "The reader"? This is a film of love. I adore it, it´s perfectly made & if you are open minded enough, it will leave you thinking in that first time your heart crushed. It´s beyond 2:30 minutes.