Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
If you tasked someone’s midwestern grandmother with directing an erotic gay film, the result would be “Call Me By Your Name.” Reserved and puritan, it is a reflection of our culturally illiterate and ahistorical times that this was ever considered controversial. Not only was it graphically reserved in its depiction of physicality (there isn’t a single penis in the whole movie), but stilted performances guided by bloodless direction rendered the on-screen relationships so unconvincing that I doubted whether those were…