This flim, directed by Luca Guadagnino, is set in rural Northern Italy over the summer of 1983. It stars Timothée Chalamet as Elio, a 17-year-old Jewish-Italian, and the son of a professor of archaeology who invites a 24-year-old graduate student, Oliver played by Armie Hammer, to live with their family over the summer to help him with his paperwork. Despite Elio resenting the arrival of Oliver at the start their friendship evolves as they go for long walks into town.
Elio indirectly confesses his feelings to Oliver and their relationship takes off. The just over two hour long films takes you on a journey to Turin during a heady blissful summer. Director Park Chan Wook cleverly reimagines Sarah Waters’s novel set in Victorian Britain as a 1930s Korean romance that is arguably one of the best films of the last decade.
Set during Japan’s occupation of Korea, a pickpocket disguises herself as a handmaiden to rob a wealthy Japanese heiress, but both women discover some unexpected emotions. Praised for its depiction of sexuality and powerful performance, this psychological thriller is a riveting story that will surprise audience members. Based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood and set in southern California, the film follows an ‘unhappy single day in the life of an unhappy single man’.
George Falconer, played by Colin Firth (who won an Oscar for the role), is a discreet gay man whose partner of 16 years, Jim, has tragically died in a car accident. Shock and .