Luca Guadagnino has cited Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema — a 1968 Italian film in which a mysterious stranger arrives and seduces every member of a bourgeois family — as the direct narrative model for what happens between Elio and Oliver that summer. Wong Kar-wai's influence is everywhere in the texture: desire as something felt in light and fabric before it's understood as feeling. Teorema is on MUBI and will change how you read the film.
Films That Influenced Call Me By Your Name
