{"id":7103,"date":"2018-02-28T07:18:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T12:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2018-03-26T07:13:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:13:30","slug":"oscar-ready-the-long-the-short-of-it-call-me-by-your-name-the-live-action-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=7103","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-Ready? The Long & the Short of It: Call Me by Your Name & the Live-Action Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call Me by Your Name<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet & Armie Hammer<\/p><\/div>\n

This languorous film based on James Ivory\u2019s adaptation of a novel by Andr\u00e9 Aciman and directed by Luc Guadagnino (trailer<\/a>) conjures all the steamy possibilities of youth in summertime. The drowsily buzzing flies, lying in tall grass whose sun-baked scent practically wafts over the audience, the lure of the river\u2019s cool and limpid water, outdoor dinners on the patio. Guadagnino makes best use of his setting \u201csomewhere in northern Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet has received well-deserved raves for his portrayal of Elio Perlman, the 17-year-old son of two intellectuals (played by Michael Stuhlbarg and Amira Casar). He beautifully portrays the confusions of late adolescence, diffidence alternating with aggression, the attraction both to Parisian Marzia (Esther Garrel) and, more strongly, to his father\u2019s summer intern Oliver (Armie Hammer). He also plays the piano with bravura skill. \u201cIs there anything you can\u2019t do?\u201d Oliver asks him and the same question might be put to Chalamet. All the music works, from Chalamet\u2019s playing, to the soundtrack, to dance tunes broadcast on tinny car radios.<\/p>\n

The attraction between Elio and Oliver is immediate, but builds slowly, and when they finally do reveal how they feel, \u201cthe moment makes you hold your breath with its intimate power,\u201d says Christy Lemire<\/a> for RogerEbert.com, <\/em>\u201cand the emotions feel completely authentic and earned.\u201d And from there, to a final few days together, their emotional strength symbolized, perhaps, by the shift from the still waters of the swimming hole to crashing mountain waterfalls. Elio\u2019s father is given an excellent, warmhearted speech to his son about the value of powerful feelings, even wretched ones.<\/p>\n

Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics rating: 96%; audiences, 86%.
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LIVE-ACTION SHORTS<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The five Oscar-nominated live action shorts this year have a \u201cripped from the headlines\u201d feeling, \u00a0with three of them based on real events. ShortsTV has trailers<\/a> for all five.<\/p>\n

DeKalb Elementary<\/strong><\/span>, by U.S. filmmaker Reed Van Dyk came with a trigger warning. It shows a white shooter entering a school and how the black receptionist, through a combination of kindness and cunning, has to try to talk him out of carrying out either violence against the children or suicide-by-cop. Inspired by a 2013 incident in Georgia. (20 minutes)<\/p>\n

With The Silent Child<\/span>, <\/strong>U.K. filmmakers Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton make the case for teaching deaf children sign language, using the story of a sweet young girl whose parents expect her only to lipread. She comes out of her shell when she\u2019s tutored by a sensitive aide. (20 minutes)<\/p>\n

My Nephew Emmett<\/strong><\/span> recounts the tragic story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black child from Chicago murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after somehow offending a white woman. Though the story is a touchstone of Civil Rights outrage, U.S. filmmaker Kevin Wilson, Jr., gives it fresh interest by telling it from the uncle\u2019s point of view. (20 minutes)<\/p>\n

The Eleven o\u2019Clock <\/strong><\/span>is a hilarious demonstration of confused communication. A psychiatrist, waiting for his new patient, knows only that the man believes he too is a psychiatrist. The encounter between the two of them, each trying to establish clinical control, is cleverly constructed by Australian filmmakers Derin Seale and Josh Lawson. (13 minutes)<\/p>\n

In Watu Wote\/All of Us<\/strong><\/span>, also based on a real episode, German filmmakers Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen show a Christian woman\u2019s uneasy interactions with her Muslim fellow-passengers on a long busride through the Kenyan countryside. Then the bus is stopped by well-armed Islamic militants bent on murdering non-Muslims. (22 minutes)<\/p>\n

Try to see some of these excellent short films!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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