Before Call Me By Your Name, Guadagnino made a volcano movie with actual restless youth.
Francesca, Morgana, Edo and Antonio. Four of today’s youngsters. Four inadvertent representatives of today’s generation of 20-year-olds who “do whatever I want”.By chance they find that they’re spending a week in Catania together, the Baroque city perched on the slopes of a volcano, the continual rumbling of which seems to reflect their restlessness…
Direction
Guadagnino's volcanic city as emotional mirror—pretentious but gorgeous.
Cinematography
Baroque architecture and actual lava rumbling, naturally lit.
Score
Arto Lindsay's experimental noodling that somehow works.
Director
Luca Guadagnino
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