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Filmmaker Luca Gudadgnino has worked on multiple acclaimed films. He is the director behindCall Me By Your Name, which was nominated for the Oscars for Best Picture, and this year’s tennis romanceChallengers. The actor will reportedly next be helming the period romanceQueer.
Gudagnino has been known to cast incredibly talented actors in his films, who have delivered some of their career-best performances. Be it Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar-nominated performance inCall Me By Your Nameor Zendaya’s inChallengers, Guadagnino casts them perfectly. The filmmaker revealed the secret behind the perfect casting.
Luca Guadagnino Reveals Why He Chose Actors Like Timothée Chalamet And Zendaya
Luca Guadagninois known for his brand of unlikely romances. The director is known for his extremely seductive visual imagery and exploration of s*xual themes in his films. Guadagnino has been a recipient of multiple accolades and acclaims for his films such asCall Me By Your Name, A Bigger Splash, Challengers,andBones and All.
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Guadagnino has frequently worked with talented actors, who have sometimes given their career-best performances in his films. He has worked with actors likeTimothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Michael Stuhlbarg, Dakota Johnson, and Zendaya. Chalamet was nominated for his first Oscar for his role as Elio inCall Me By Your Name.
Talking about his style of filmmaking which uses a single visual motif to explore something else entirely, the filmmaker spoke about his thought process while choosing actors. Guadagnino mentioned in an interview withCine Citta News,
[My films] are Trojan horses, to say that nothing is as it seems, to tell something through another. Everything is a MacGuffin. I am passionate about observing bodies in space, the details of a nape, of a neck. When I choose my actors I don’t care if they are good at acting, I look for a three-dimensionality that can be captured with the camera.
The filmmaker also credited his view of ‘everything could be cinema’ to his exposure to French New Wave cinema at the age of 11. He mentioned that the movement helped him realize the importance of visual images in a story.
Luca Guadagnino Has Several Projects Lined Up
While his filmChallengerswas released earlier this year and became a subject of viral internet memes, Luca Guadagnino already seems to have moved on to his next project. Though theZendayastarrer was supposed to be released much earlier, the delays due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike lent him time to work on other projects of his.
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The filmmaker’s next will be the Daniel Craig starring period filmQueer. Based on a book by William S Burroughs, Gudagnino called it his most personal film and said,
Queer will be my most personal film. It’s a tribute to Powell and Pressburger. I’ve seen The Red Shoes at least 50 times and I think they would appreciate the s*x scenes in Queer, which are numerous and quite scandalous.
The director will also be helming the filmAfter the Huntwith Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edibri. He is also reportedly working on a documentary on filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci calledJoie de Vivre.
Nishanth A
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Nishanth A is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on TV shows with over 2,000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past two years and a scriptwriter at various corporations before that, working on educational content. With a Communications, English Literature, and Psychology triple major, Nishanth usually covers news and analyses on Star Trek, particularly Strange New Worlds and The Next Generation; Doctor Who, the DCU, and more.A Nolan fan, Nishanth spends his time exploring the filmographies of various directors with an auteurial style or can be found making short movies of his own. He has also contributed as a feature writer for Film Companion, focusing on the South division.
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