Christmas-Reviewer

If your a gay man you are looking for a film you can relate too. Few films have gay love as a main storyline. "Shelter" has a good story nice looking cast but Brad Rowe lacks charm and raw sexuality that would of made this film so much better.

In this film we needed a great love scene and this film lacks a pulse when it comes to love scenes. That is too bad. I loved Brad Rowe in "Billy's Hollywood Screen-kiss". In that film he really didn't need to do a love scene to be sexy. In this film he needed to do a love that was powerful. This way the ending would of been believable. I think Brad Rowe should of done more with less. I am not saying I wanted an X-Rated film. What I wanted was a believable passion that this film lacks.

If you want to know Why do gay men love "Call Me By Your Name" here are my 2 cents.

I was a gay kid I grew up in the 1980's & it was terrible. It was the start of the aids epidemic & gay bashing seem to be a sport. In many places all over the world it still is.

At school I was bullied and felt like I had no place safe. When I was a freshmen on the first day of high school someone wrote "Fag" on my locker.

So I never used the locker again the entire time I was in school. It was too "Risky". Sophomore year someone wrote "Fag" on my new OP Jacket. Afraid of what my parents would say when I brought it home I decided to "Throw it away" and act like it was stolen.

This is what happened to me. Sad thing is that "Yes I was gay" but I never acted on it. It was drilled into your head gay sex =death. I was in my twenties by the time I came out and becoming the man I was born to be.

When you are a straight guy growing up you have heroes and role models. When your gay "You feel your on a sinking ship" with no life rafts. You are drowning not in an ocean but in your own tears.

So this brings me to the film "Call Me By Your Name" Set in 1983 in northern Italy, Call Me by Your Name chronicles the romantic relationship between a 17-year-old, Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old graduate-student assistant to Elio's father Samuel (Michael Stuhlbarg), an archaeology professor.

What was nice was the film did not deal with AIDS, COMING OUT, or politics. It's just a love story. I do not want to give too much away but it was nice to see a film that I could relate too.

What is a miracle is that since the film takes place in 1983 none of the issues you think it would deal are not talked about at all. This is a relief. The story is really about 2 men and a romantic Summer romance.

Casting is everything. Everyone does a very good job. Sandy Dennis was good but sadly she fails to give Moana a soul a fatal flaw that prevented the film (and possibly the play) from achieving true greatness. Had Robert Altman cast Rutanya Alda the film would still be talked about today.

This film takes place 20 years to the day af the untimely death of Jimmy Dean. The people of a local James Dean club reunite and compare their lives to one another. As the liquor flows decades of truth finally flow to the surface.