At times, his work even appears to be woven from sense-memories, of your hand wandering along the nape of a handsome man’s neck or clasping a pouch of MDMA in a squalid bar bathroom.
With his “Desire Trilogy” of films - “I Am Love” (2009), “A Bigger Splash” (2015), “Call Me by Your Name” (2017) - and now the HBO series “We Are Who We Are,” the Oscar-nominated Italian director has established himself as our foremost chronicler of life’s voluptuous delights: cock’s crow and birdsong, cold drinks on hot squares, just-ripe stone fruit and salt-baked cod. Luca Guadagnino knows pleasure when he sees it.
