spotlight YCALL ME BY
DISCOVERY AND DESIRE by joel martens
Who among us doesn’t remember those disconcerting first twinges of sexual attraction? How about the rush of discovery when the attraction was reciprocated? Then, the breathless, heady intensity that followed during the pursuit of, or the chase by, the object of that
attraction...those first thralls of love, the passion of those first explorations and losing one’s self to the dizzy- ing intensity of it all.
I’m not a betting man, but I’ll wager that
almost every person reading this, male, female, gay, straight, bisexual, pansexual or otherwise, knows the precise moment I’m alluding to, on whom the attraction was focused and the exact location, time and place where it happened to them the first time. Mine was summer of ’81, I was nineteen
and just learning to test my wobbly gay wings and taking my first steps away from things familiar. I had just joined a community theatre group in Northern Wisconsin and was doing a musical theatre review (of course). The mo- ment involved a boy my age from Oregon, a hostile director, a freezing old Victorian house and many, many ardor-fueled miles on my red ’74 Mustang. Even though it eventually came to an end, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…” could have kept this young man from drowning himself in those piquant, exhilarating moments. Those breathless moments are the basis
of the story masterfully told by Director Luca Guadagnino and the film Call Me By Your Name. Not unlike those first sweet moments of love, he has done so with deep sensitivity—managing to create the essence of innocence and the sensuality of young love—while imbuing the film with summer’s delicious, languorous ease and the abandon of those moments. Cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom’s lens captures those exquisite happenings, putting one in mind of earlier, panoramic Merchant Ivory productions such as Maurice. Films in which you not only viewed summer’s ease and the happenstance of love on screen, you were permeated by them…it’s no wonder, since James Ivory was part of the production team. We had the chance to sit down with Director
Luca Guadagnino, Armie Hammer [Oliver], Timothée Chalamet [Elio], and Michael Stuhlbarg [Mr. Perlman, Elio’s father] to discuss the process of creating the magic.
A VOYAGE THROUGH
OURNAME
not a straight body in these statues, they’re all curved. Sometimes impossibly curved, and so, nonchalant, hence their ageless ambiguity. As if they are daring you to desire them…”
“Muscles are firm, 32 RAGE monthlyRAGE monthly | DECEMBER 2017
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