![]() Look closely, and even the most primal moment in “Call Me by Your Name” echoes Guadagnino’s understanding of pleasure, which is anything but blindly hedonistic. Longing for a partner or a parent, an escape or an exploit, is ultimately admitting an absence, however fleetingly you may feel it: It means you are lonely or orphaned, apprehensive or bored. We are also identifying with the characters' wants and, by extension, their fears and their foibles. ![]() When we lust after Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) in “A Bigger Splash”- wearing a stretched-out gray tee on which you can practically smell the unholy ointment of sweat and sunscreen - or dream of Lake Garda’s perfect turquoise in “Call Me by Your Name” - where Professor Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) exhumes ancient sculptures from the sandy depths - we are experiencing more than want. The "Call Me By Your Name" director's new HBO series follows teens who are exploring their gender and sexual identity. ![]() Italian film director, Luca Guadagnino, in Rome, Aug.
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