like one of the beautiful things about this film is that it was this little sundance hit that just snowballed into this critically acclaimed masterpiece. and timothee was just a small time actor enamoured by this hollywood superstar playing a horny boy enamoured by this adonis academic. and like now he’s become this breakthrough heartthrob and whilst i have no doubt he will find it easy to return to elio things will be different. but then that is the crux of the book, that people change but they also stay the same. the meaning of the river flowing……