Failed Oscar Campaigns: "Call Me By Your Name" (2017)

Scene from Call Me By Your Name

As awards seasons pick up, so do the campaigns to make your film have the best chances at the Best Picture race. However, like a drunken stupor, sometimes these efforts come off as trying too hard and leave behind a trailer of ridiculous flamboyance. Join me on every other Saturday for a highlight of the failed campaigns that make this season as much about prestige as it does about train wrecks. Come for the Harvey Weinstein comments and stay for the history. It's going to be a fun time as I explore cinema's rich history of attempting to matter.

Review: "Call Me By Your Name" is the Best Love Story of 2017

It starts with a stare. Elio (Timothee Chalamet) looks down as house guest Oliver (Armie Hammer) arrives. He is one of many men that have come to the countryside to stay with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg). However, there is something that goes unspoken; something that shines in the antagonistic play between these two young men who constantly try to impress each other. Director Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name is a confident love story that tackles a different kind of LGBT story. It's one of the bisexual, eager to make the most of his first major love. It's rarely spoken, but found in the stares that Elio and Oliver share throughout the film. It may be a relatively simple story, but it's also one of the truest of the year. Love is difficult not because of what's said, but what's felt.