My submission for the CMBYN/Charmie Advent Calendar 2022, made possible by the amazing @onlyastoryteller and @littlesistercharlie to celebrate all the love in our CMBYN family 🤍 🤍
Call Me By Your Name is a 2017 sentimental film directed by Luca Guadagnino.
The screenplay is written by James Ivory and is a film adaptation of the novel Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman. It is the third and final film of Guadagnino's "desire trilogy", after I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015). Set in northern Italy in 1983, the film tells the love story between Elio (Timothée Chalamet), a seventeen-year-old living in Italy, and the American student Oliver (Armie Hammer). Also part of the cast are Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel and Victoire Du Bois. The film's editor Walter Fasano also has a cameo in the film: he is the DJ of the famous party scene, as stated by Fasano himself in an interview.
Principal photography took place in Crema, Italy, between May and June 2016.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017, and was subsequently released theatrically in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2017 and in the United States on November 24, 2017. The film received unanimous acclaim, with particular appreciation for the direction, screenplay, soundtrack and performers, and was chosen by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute as one of the 10 best films of the year. It received three nominations for the 2018 Golden Globe, for best film, best actor (Chalamet) and best supporting actor (Hammer) and four nominations for the 2018 Oscar awards for best film, best actor (Chalamet), best non-original screenplay, best song (Mystery of Love). The Oscar was won by Ivory for best adapted screenplay.
Summer 1983. Elio Perlman, a seventeen-year-old French-American Jew, spends his summer holidays in a villa immersed in the Cremasco countryside, in Moscazzano, where his father, an archeology professor, usually hosts a foreign student every year who is busy writing his thesis doctoral degree.
A Small Light | Official Trailer | National Geographic
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I read Anne Frank's diary when I was in high school. I watched the black and white film adaptation around that time as well. There are many stories out there bringing to light the brave acts of kindness of people who fought Nazis by saving the lives of the people they persecuted. I didn't know much about Miep Gies, the young woman who helped hide the Frank family and the others in the annex. My mother asked me if I could find the series in Disney+ because she wanted to watch it and so I watched it with her. It is an 8 episode long series that kept us down on our seats, watching how these people risked their lives to keep other people alive. I know the series has some fictionalized elements, but still, I know that other people were working against the Nazis, putting their lives in danger to save people's lives. It really broke my heart to see these people hiding, hoping when we know that only Mr. Otto Frank was the only one that survived, but they got to live those two years. Miep gave them two years of love and precious moments and gave Mr. Frank a part of one of his daughters that helped him keep her alive in his heart and in the collective conscience of the world.
The series also gives us a look into her husband's contribution saving people's lives. They were a very brave couple.
It is an inspiring series to watch. We need to understand the past in order to read the red flags in the present and avoid repeating the cruel past.