Show & Tell: Call Me by Your Name

And while I haven’t seen the movie (a bit of a disadvantage is describing it), I have read enough about it to know that it’s a full-on beautiful, emotionally powerful and acted with conviction and grace. I tend to take any particular film critics’ reviews with a grain (or a bag) of salt, but when virtually every critic raves about a movie, I know something special is going on.

The story is of a quietly brilliant boy (Chalamet) summering at his family’s Italian country home who falls for his father’s intern (Armie Hammer), kicking off his first great love affair. I don’t want to give anything else away, but the way people talk about Call Me By Your Name is the way they talk about their own first romances, with all the urgency, tenderness and heartbreak that accompanies that experience. One critic even called it “an instantly fond memory.”

I’ll let it go at that. I’m looking forward to it and I hope you can make it to the film and stay for the discussion. The film starts at 7:00 at The Music Hall’s Historic Theater.

Also, don’t forget to mark your calendars for discussions of The Shape of Water on March 13 and The Darkest Hour on March 20. I think chances are good that we will be watching films with some Oscar gold to their credit. And, finally, don’t miss the enormous opportunity to see the Oscar-nominated short films now running at TMH. You won’t get the chance again.

Paul Goodwin

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