Luca Guadagnino: Love and Horror, a Dialogue and Retrospective
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Luca Guadagnino: Love and Horror, a Dialogue and Retrospective

“I think it’s infectious to see how people can be connected to their desires.” —Luca Guadagnino

Internationally renowned director Luca Guadagnino made his debut in 1999 with The Protagonists, a crime thriller set in London starring Tilda Swinton. Since then, he has continued to dive deeply into characters’ psyches and the dark waters of desire, love, and horror, portraying intimate relationships with vivid, natural ease. His adaptation of Call Me by Your Name, a sensual and moving vision of secret passions, was nominated for Best Picture at the 2018 Academy Awards. His latest, Suspiria, is a remake of Dario Argento’s classic 1977 horror film—which the Walker will be screening this Halloween—and also stars Swinton, his “partner in crime” and most frequent collaborator. With a wide range of influences and inspirations as director and as a frequent international film festival juror, Guadagnino will illuminate his career and complex psychoanalytical narratives, reaching far into the past, present, and future of cinema.

Walker Art Center presents Luca Guadagnino: Love and Horror, a Dialogue and Retrospective
February 1, 8–9, 2019
Walker Cinema

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LUCA GUADAGNINO: LOVE AND HORROR

Dialogue: Luca Guadagnino and Scott Foundas
Friday, February 1, 8 pm
$15 ($12 Walker members, students, and seniors)

Luca Guadagnino joins Scott Foundas for a conversation about his international film career, inspirations, and collaborations. Foundas, previously a programmer at the New York Film Festival and a chief film critic for Variety, is now a film acquisitions and development executive at Amazon Studios.

 

Retrospective:
Luca Guadagnino’s “Desire Trilogy”
February 8-9, 2019, Walker Cinema
$10 each ($8 each Walker members, students, and seniors)

“Each [film] asks what desire is, by exploring what desire makes people do. Each addresses desire’s transformative potential – its consequences for the individual and to the society that individual exists in within the world of the film. Desire has an undulating effect; sometimes it is positive and benign; on other occasions, adverse and damaging. Destruction, Guadagnino understands, is a vital element in the rebirth caused by desire.” —Senses of Cinema

 

I Am Love
Friday, February 8, 7pm
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I Am Love is an arresting film in many ways, displaying, in parallel with the Recchi family’s theatrical deployment of the trappings of wealth, its own bracing and astringent sense of technique. It’s a high-IQ picture—there are few enough of those— and it’s fascinating, if a little bloodless. A gorgeously costumed and styled piece of work.” —The Guardian

 

A Bigger Splash
Saturday, February 9, 2pm
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“The cinema of seduction doesn’t get much more overheated than A Bigger Splash, an Italian come-on that doesn’t just want to amuse you, but also to pour you a Negroni before taking you for a midnight spin with the top down.”The New York Times

 

Call Me By Your Name
Saturday, February 9, 7pm
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Call Me by Your Name is a huge step forward for Guadagnino. The story manages to transcend all its genre trappings: This isn’t just a luxurious vacation movie, but it’s still crammed to the gills with gorgeous shots of the Italian countryside and Elio’s family home. This isn’t just an erotic drama, and yet the love scenes are all choreographed with care. And most importantly, this isn’t just a coming-of-age tale, but the ardor Elio and Oliver have for each other feels utterly vital, as if every touch will be seared into their memories.” —The Atlantic


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