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Call Me with Timothée Chalamet

Exclusive: The Call Me By Your Name director discusses his new movie, starring Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet

“Call Me By Your Name has been, for me, very much about the transmission of knowledge. As much as it is about the ‘being born of desire’ in Elio,” Guadagnino says. “Elio learns from people. He learns from the father, he learns from the mother. And in this case, I think it’s about the impossibility of the transmission of knowledge within the parameters of such a violent life, and the kind of brutality of the disenfranchised of the Reagan era. I don’t think the subject matter is cannibalism, honestly. It’s loneliness, abandonment, being different, looking for companionship, being left behind. Those were the dynamics I was interested in. I am not there to judge or speculate on something. I am there to tell the story of that person.”

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Timothée talks about why he picked the Leonard Cohen song “You Want It Darker” for the first ‘Bones and All’ trailer. (10/08/22)

“It’s a bit of a hard sell and the hope is that it’s cross genre-that it’s romance and horror. The fear I guess is that people who aren’t open minded don’t open their minds to it. I felt like that song was just wonderfully emblematic of like a sort of moodiness that has rhythm and is as dark as it is sexy.”

-Timothée Chalamet, Twitter: divetothebelow