Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino intends to tackle the 1980s AIDS crisis head-on with the sequel, assuming that the project ultimately comes to pass. While André Aciman’s 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name takes place in 1987, Guadagnino and screenwriter James Ivory bumped the timeline back to 1983 for their film adaptation of the summer romance between seventeen year old Elio Perlman and his father’s academic assistant, Oliver. Since HIV was only being discovered around the time of the movie’s events, Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name doesn’t actually touch on that issue or related political matters ...
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