“I think that being intimate with someone else is probably the best thing that can happen in our entire lives,” he explains.

She jokes with him but she’s basically there to watch him die.”Īciman’s novels could better be called investigations into the intricacies of relationships’ intimacies. She travels every week from one city to another city to take care of him. And the same thing is between Miranda and her father. So there’s an exchange of roles but a sense of indelible intimacy between them, that they know nothing can come to destroy or come to challenge it. In Call Me by Your Name, we have the father giving the son advice and here we have the son saying it’s nice to see his father in love again. “It’s a very rich relationship, full of intimate exchanges. “The father/son or father/daughter relationship is and has been very important to me in my own life,” says Aciman. This parent-child dynamic that begins at the end of Call Me by Your Name is fleshed out further in Find Me. I needed that external voice around Elio to make a few comments so that when you do meet him, you have a good idea of who he has become.” I didn’t want to confront him right away. I realised that Elio will come back at the very end of this chapter and that’s how we’re going to discover who he is ten years later. “I found that starting with the father was the best way to go back into this story. “I tried again and again and again, gave up and then started again. “I had started Find Me with the voice of Elio but it wasn’t working,” Aciman explains. He is about to embark on his own life-changing love affair with Miranda, a woman he meets on a train. The sequel, Find Me, begins not with Elio’s voice but his father’s. After writing Call Me by Your Name, I finished another novel and then I started writing the sequel.” You never forget that you’ve written such a story because it stays with you for the rest of your life. “Elio and Oliver were always in the wings. Fans rallied for a sequel to Elio and Oliver’s relationship and it was a pleasant surprise when Aciman announced that he too would love a sequel to Call Me by Your Name – in fact, he was finishing one. While Call Me by Your Name was critically acclaimed when it was first published in 2007, Guadagnino’s film turned Elio and Oliver’s love story into a cultural sensation. It’s an unashamedly romantic story about first love, lost love and queer love. “Turns out this was a very successful movie.”Ĭall Me by Your Name is the story of seventeen-year-old Elio, who falls in love with his father’s grad student, Oliver, during a summer in Italy. “The night of the premiere, suddenly I was getting a million tweets saying everybody’s crying, everybody’s applauding,” chuckles Aciman. It was a pleasant surprise, then, that Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation wasn’t just great it was career-best, Oscar-nominated great.

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