Thursday, June 25, 2020

You Told Me It Would Last Forever

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A couple of weeks ago I shared with you, and you, and you, the Cannes trailer for François Ozon's forthcoming homosexual romance called Summer of '85, which couldn't look more Call Me By Your Name to me if Timothée Chalamet crawled through the screen and stuck his face straight down my shorts. (Any time, Timmy. Any time.) I mean even that poster, with the yellow font against the blue sky and the boys' heads leaning on each other...

I say that not as any sort of insult -- if every movie was a remake of CMBYN I would be in heaven. Give me Call Me By Your Name on a box, Call Me By Your Name with a fox;  give me Call Me By Your Name in outer space! Fucking a peach in zero gravity! Anyway François Ozon is not exactly a derivative, safe filmmaker so I'm sure Summer of 85 will be its own thing...

Actually if I'm being honest I'm a little bit afraid that Ozon's film might angle itself as a critique or a response to Guadagnino's movie. If Ozon has his characters eat the damn peach (even just metaphorically) all the anti-CMBYN homosexuals are gonna be so fucking exhausting. I can't recall if I ever heard Ozon's opinion on Guadagnino's movie so who knows.

All I do know is that I want to love both the movies, all the movies, so I personally hope they can exist side by side, holding hands, happy and full of peach juice in perfect harmony. To get to the point -- Summer of 85 is getting released in France on July 14th and so a longer trailer for the film has just been released this week, and I will now share it with you fine people here today. Voila!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are gay people who hate Call me by your name??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

why?

par3182 said...

call me by your name meets talented mr ripley

drool

Carl said...

I came here to say the same thing about the Ripley connection. I'm on board for it!