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MDC'S TOWER THEATER (THEATER 2)
OPENING NIGHT FILM: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) makes splashy, sensual films brimming with big emotions, but the foundation of his work is a rare tenderness.
In 1983 in the Lombardy countryside, an antiquities academic, Professor Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg, who could earn an Oscar for this role), invites a young American Jewish scholar named Oliver (Armie Hammer) to stay with his family at their 17th century palazzo, and assist him with a summer research project. To the Professor's dismay, his restless adolescent son Elio (Timothée Chalamet) soon falls under a spell of fascination with the gregarious, extroverted American. As Elio shows Oliver the natural delights of an Italian summer with nearby Swiss and French influences, exquisite dreams begin to take flight before our eyes—and those of Elio's watchful father and mother, Annella.
Call Me By Your Name, adapted by the legendary James Ivory (of the famous Merchant-Ivory filmmaking team) from a novel André Aciman, is swooning and alive – a new masterpiece. Sufjan Stevens contributes original new songs that add immeasurably to the film's heart-fluttering texture, and the film also does for peaches what I Am Love did for prawns! –Jaie Laplante
Event Films
A work of tenderness and beauty from the acclaimed director of splashy, sensual films such as I Am Love and A Bigger Splash. An antiquities academic invites a young American Jewish scholar to stay with his family for a summer in Lombardy, with unexpected results. Starring Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg. A Sony Pictures Classics release.
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