2004
In Paweł Pawlikowski’s romance, the ebbs and flows of the relationship between Natalie Press’s working-class Yorkshire teenager and Emily Blunt’s posh rebel are intensified by the lack of structure the holidays bring, enabling transgressive behaviour and, ultimately, damaging flights of fancy.
Window to the soul ... Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name. Photograph: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock
Call Me By Your Name
2017
The holiday romance is a mainstay of the summer film, and Luca Guadagnino’s drama captures the lust, joy and transience of the experience, wrapped up in a seductive rural Italian setting. A cultured American teenage boy’s fling with an older man is conducted through meandering bike rides and cooling dips in remote lakes; the film’s languid atmosphere gives it an air of inevitability.