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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.
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Up once again, with the whole life pretty much flashing before one s eyes before the story even begins. Once that s done, it s time to sit back and relax, bringing out a much gentler side to the Finnish director, writer, politician – you name it – so devoted to the persona of an “arrogant, self-centred bastard” that it has turned into its own entity.
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But people do mellow with time, after all, and Donner was clearly aware that not much of it was left while filming – he passed away in January 2020. And so he reflects away, led by questions reportedly inspired by his own chat with Bergman, admitting to getting to know Visconti “just like that, with no press agents” or confessing his sins, be they a spotty parental record or the fact that even when he made films, “it was never at 100%”. Save for an odd moment of televised glory – when he accepted the Academ