“Is it better to speak or to die?”
This film completely wraps itself around you, immersing you into a standstill summer of reading, dining and swimming that somehow still goes by too quickly. And boy, does it feel like a mountain fell on you once it does.
A beautifully intimate story, perfectly depicting the fear (?) of sharing your feelings with someone as a queer man, not knowing whether they could ever be corresponded. However, as Elio’s dad tells us…
