TONY'S MOVIE REVIEW: The Sensuous and Enthralling 'Call Me By Your Name'

The Oscar nominations are going to be announced later and I won't be surprised if this movie, Call Me By Your Name, gets a few major ones like Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and maybe Best Original Song, Best Original Score and by a longshot, Best Director

I was listening to the audiobook after watching the movie, and James Ivory, the screenwriter, who I'm sure will snag an Oscar for writing this, stayed very faithful to the book. I might have to reread it but listening to Armie Hammer read it is by itself such a sexy experience.

I doubt though if the Academy would vote for another gay-themed movie for Best Picture, two years in a row, but just to get a nomination, and I'm sure this movie has many Academy supporters, is by itself a great achievement.

This movie though is not for everyone. When I read that it had a special 2-day screening, in Ayala Malls I jumped at the chance to watch it, bringing Mama along, just so I can see her reaction at seeing two grown men making out on a large movie screen.

It's a very slow burn movie, typical of most Oscar Best Picture nominees. It's like we are voyeurs into these people's lives.

The lives of these characters is what I aspire for - a kind of combined polyglot - intellectual connoisseurs of art and linguistics and culture.

The year it was set, 1983, was the year I discovered Michael Jackson, Madonna and just like Timothee Chalamet's character, it was when my world suddenly transitioned from black and white to full on color.

It was a beautiful age to be in.

Anyhow, there are so many arresting scenes in the movie, scenes which made me feel so kilig, because gay men really don't get these types of scenes in most heterosexual movies.

I'm just glad director Luca Guadagnino injected just the right amount of passion, of romance, of desire, into this movie.

The last movie set in Italy that I fell madly in love with was 2013's The Great Beauty, which captured the decadence of Rome.

This movie is superbly shot showing the beauty of the region of Lombardy in northwest Italy. Just watching the gorgeous Italian summer is a wonderful experience by itself.

And the two male leads? Gorgeous!

Armie Hammer without his clothes on.....yum yum yum.

And Timothee Chalamet - what a f*****g beautiful boy!!

That fruit scene? NOW, I want to find out how an apricot tastes like LOL