Some day next year or the year after, the New Beverly will pair Luca Guadagnino‘s Call Me By Your Name with Bernardo Bertolucci‘s The Sheltering Sky, and for some viewers who never quite got Luca’s film (which is to say never quite let it all in) it will suddenly click into place. For both are first and foremost about that special region of life that has very little to do with order and discipline and accomplishment and freshly ironed shirts, and almost everything to do with dozens or hundreds or perhaps thousands of little sensual gleamings…aromas, caressings, fingertips, flavors, afternoon naps, architecture, fruit, splashes of water, magic hour sunlight, little hums and moans and grrrs that come and go.
