‘Call Me by Your Name’ is a gay love story. The film should have clud gay sex. - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A GAY LOVE STORY, M THE SELF-TORTURE
• ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A GAY LOVE STORY. THE FILM SHOULD HAVE CLUD GAY SEX.
• 'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' IS THE STRAIGHTT GAY MOVIE EVER
• REVIEW: LU GUADAGNO’S GAY LOVE STORY ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A NEW G-OF-AGE CLASSIC
• CALL ME BY YOUR NAME: GEO, BUT IS IT GAY?

‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A GAY LOVE STORY, M THE SELF-TORTURE

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‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A GAY LOVE STORY. THE FILM SHOULD HAVE CLUD GAY SEX.

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'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' IS THE STRAIGHTT GAY MOVIE EVER

“Call Me by Your Name” rgs a ls fatalistic but equally arnt variatn on the same COVERAGE: Goln Glob 2018Adapted om André Aciman’s 2007 novel, a well-regard addn to the pantheon of gay g-of-age stori, the movie weav a ptivatg chronicle of first love around El Perlman (a superb Timothée Chalamet), a smart, sensive teenager wh dark curls and suggtive ey perched atop a reedy most of Guadagno’s characters, El enjoys a life of enviable privilege.

He broods and blh, schem and fumbl, and seems both enraptured and terrified by the power of his young actor fds a splendid match Hammer, who plays Oliver like a bunch of unually dreamy Rsian ntg dolls: He’s somethg of a rival at first, a specimen of superr worldls and masculy, before openg up to reveal a tsted nfidant and fally a genero, affectnate all s simmerg erotic tensy, “Call Me by Your Name” isn’t a particularly explic movie, pecially when pared wh other recent exploratns of young gay sire like “God’s Own Country” and “Beach Rats, ” or a more distant landmark like “Blue Is the Warmt Color. Unlike “Moonlight” director Barry Jenks, Lu Guadagno is an out gay man, but that didn’t change the way he approached Oliver and El’s sex scene.

REVIEW: LU GUADAGNO’S GAY LOVE STORY ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A NEW G-OF-AGE CLASSIC

In the year that “Moonlight” won the Amy Award for Bt Picture, movi wh gay characters have never been more accepted. Gay sex those movi, however, is still a b of a third rail. Guadagno was prepared for backlash about the lack of gay sex the film.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME: GEO, BUT IS IT GAY?

“Call Me by Your Name” is a betiful film and a joy to watch, gay sex or not.