The movie I have chosen to analyze is Call Me By Your Name. Call Me by Your Name (2017) is a romantic drama directed by Luca Guadagnino, based on the novel by André Aciman. Set in the summer of 1983 in northern Italy, the film follows 17-year-old Elio Perlman, a brilliant and musically gifted teenager, who develops a deep and passionate relationship with Oliver, a 24-year-old graduate student assisting Elio’s father. As the summer progresses, their bond grows into a profound romance filled with longing, self-discovery, and bittersweet emotion. The film beautifully captures themes of first love, identity, and the fleeting nature of time, culminating in an emotionally powerful and nostalgic ending.
Location/Settings=The movie begins with Elio’s summer house in Northern Italy as we can see in the picture above. The house is a classic European summer house in the countryside, and we can see this by the way it is an open house with no air conditioning and there is sunshine shining through the house entirely with long vast fields of grass and trees and flowers surrounding it entirely. The furniture and the way the house is shaped aids even further to the European summer aesthetic. The setting of this movie is what makes it so aesthetically pleasing to the viewer because of the way it captures a summer in Italy with beautiful scenery, authentic vintage Italian buildings and nature.
Costume/Hair/Makeup= The costumes and outfits that the characters in the movie would wear would always be pastel colors and very lightweight big, oversized button-up collared shirts with vintage jorts. They wear vintage Italian converse for their shoes. They accessorize with sunglasses and bracelets. The hair of the characters throughout the entire movie stays very messy, and with a beach feel as the characters are constantly running around and doing summer activities. They usually for the entire remind bare faced with almost no makeup.
Lighting/ Color= The lighting throughout the entire movie is very warm toned because of the European summer aesthetic is trying to convey. We also always see tones of green and vibrant colors alluding to the nature surrounding our characters with very iridescent lighting. The lighting helps the audience feel very dream like and we can conclude this adds onto the idea of nothing good last forever just like the summer our characters are currently living.
Facial Expression/Body Expression= Our two characters facial expression are always exceptionally soft toned, the eye contact the two of them share helps us always realize the burning desire the two of them have for on another. Their body expression is always open to one another as they are hugging constantly or touching hands. We can tell the two of them share a special connection through their body language.
Blocking/Proximity= They are always in proximity with one another and their bodies are constantly touching one another in some shape or form.
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