The best scene of “Call Me by Your Name” has nothing to do with fruit, but a frank father-son conversation. Brittle to the point of breaking, Timothée Chalamet sits on the couch, arms crossed, rese…
” feels like a feature-length expansion of that scene — or at least the sentiment it evokes — as a gay man who never had the chance to come out to his parents returns home, surprised to find Mum and Dad waiting for him. They died in a car crash when he was 11, but here they are, curious and caring, greeting him with hugs and unconditional love.
Loosely inspired by Japanese writer Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel “Strangers,” Haigh’s low-key English-language adaptation is a curious kind of ghost story, at once incredibly tender and profoundly devastating as it slowly reveals its secrets. Best known as the creator of HBO’s landmark LGBT series “Looking,” Haigh takes the hetero source material and reconfigures it around his unapologetically gay protagonist, downplaying the supernatural elements while adding a uniquely queer emotional core.
The film is calibrated as a cathartic experience, advancing to a series of wrenching goodbyes as its character realizes that whatever magic allowed him this reunion, he can’t spend eternity in its what-might-have-been embrace. Or can he? This isn’t a typical case of “therapy through screenwriting,” in which the act of filmmaking serves to mollify the creator’s childhood traumas.
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