A modern-day Visconti, Italian director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) grants us entry into a world not only of wealth but of culture, which can be just as liberating.

Call Me By Your Name survives because of poignant screenwriting, keen directing, and tender acting.

The characters' beauty and intellectual perfection is so consummate that I couldn't entirely believe that these people actually had genitals-that they could ever sweat or incur sunburn.

One always fears hyperbole as a critic but I’d rather that than not to do justice to this moment. It is stunning in its execution and in its maturity.