Luca Guadagnino often relies on a distinct period of time to frame his stories — and not just for projects set long in the past.
His contemporary films, like “I Am Love,” often take place years before they were shot in order to give the filmmaker “a little perspective” on the people, places, and events he’s capturing.“I’m committed to a sense of reality.
I think that it’s important,” Guadagnino said in an interview.
“I believe that reality is everywhere.
It’s all around us.
It’s above us, below us, left, right, center, everywhere.
And more often than we expect, the urgency of reality — [as seen] through the media, for instance — doesn’t hit us the way the media believes [it does].”For his latest directorial effort and first television series, Guadagnino again put a few years of distance between himself and the setting for “We Are Who We Are,” eight
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