ICARUS

I, TONYA

IN THE FADE

Luca Guadignino’s sensual, beating with heart, lust and soul in every frame, "Call Me By Your Name" (2018)

To have your heart long for another's heart, and to get near that person, the one that awakens all your passions, the one that makes everything else around taste more unique, to lust and to love, this is the tenderness, sensuality and beauty of existence. To feel and then to feel together. Set in a charming village in the North of Italy (the location is actually Guadignino's hometown: Crema), during a summer in the early 80s. [TO BE CONTINUED] Borrowing from Guardian's film critic: "And then there is Stuhlbarg’s speech advising against the impulse to cauterise or forget pain: “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of 30.” There is such tenderness to this film. I was overwhelmed by it." Full review from The Guardian is here. To rewatch the sublime scenes, see Sufjan Steven's theme song, "The Mystery of Love".