![]() But just as Hammer transcended what was, to my eye, his miscasting, Aciman’s prose transcends its own grand neediness for knowledge and all that knowledge cannot know when distilled into another imperative sentence issued as an unspoken, unwritten admonition from both books: the Delphic maxim, “Know Thyself.” Elio and Oliver indeed know themselves more deeply for having known and loved each other.įind Me begins with a resurrection. ![]() That’s a whole lot of reshaping to shove into the mighty allure of one character. That much-needed irony, even a whiff of ennobling wit, was found in the lovely performances of Timothée Chalamet as Elio and Michael Stuhlbarg as his father, Samuel, a deeply empathetic archeology professor - as well as Armie Hammer as Oliver, Samuel’s graduate assistant, who visits the family at their Italian compound that enchanted summer and not only reshapes their lives, but also, ultimately, it seems, their very concept of time. The keen-eyed screenwriter James Ivory rightfully won an Oscar for gleaning a more stringent strain of love story from the gloss-and-dross of Aciman’s prose, which has a geography all its own filled with isthmuses of metaphors and olive groves of allusions with alas neither an inland nor an inside leg left for irony. ![]() ![]() The acclaimed 2017 film based on Call Me by Your Name was, to me, an improvement on the source material. ![]()
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