He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex. Johnny Saxby ( Josh O’Connor) works long hours on his family’s remote farm in the north of England. The top scene, however, has to be now-notorious peach-fucking. Who knew dismantling and having your way with a piece of fruit could be so sexy?
So much of the movie is filled with sexual tension and longing that it’s hard not to watch it without breaking a sweat. Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Original Song and Best Adapted Screenplay (which it won), Call Me by Your Name has already cemented its status as a gay cinema classic. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever. It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman ( Timothee Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, is about to experience an unforgettable summer romance. Oliver ( Armie Hammer), a charming American scholar working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father ( Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor studying Greco-Roman culture. In the film’s hottest scene, Dickinson fights past his nervousness to strip down to nothing but his socks and seduce his attractive, much older male partner ( Douglas Everett Davis) – who, though we know little about him, sports a wedding ring (and some questionable palm-reading skills). A thoughtful meditation on burgeoning gay desire and denial, Beach Rats was a breakout indie hit in 2017, featuring a stellar, thoroughly brave performance by up-and-coming British star Harris Dickinson (playing a New York teen with total authenticity). As Frankie struggles to reconcile his competing desires, his decisions leave him hurtling toward irreparable consequences. When his chatting and web-camming intensify, he begins meeting men at a nearby cruising beach while simultaneously entering into a cautious relationship with a young woman. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour hookup sites for older men. On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends.