The movie is borderline pornographic. Well, kind of. The most you will see is tits. Which is weird, because it is a movie about gays. Though the only actual nudity is a female breast. Teenage breast! Illegal teenage breast. Luca Guadagnino doesn't give a damn. But the non-nude sexual stuff is borderline pornographic anyway. Like the shot will be composed to conceal private parts. But they are there in the actor's face. Like there is a shot of Elliot simply grabbing the ball-sack of Oliver. No trickery. Real grab, done for real. Though Oliver is wearing shorts in that scene. So you don't see the ball-sack itself. Just feel the grab of it through the clothes. The actors of the teenagers in fact were a bit older than the characters they were playing. Which speaks a lot about the casting of the movie. Elliot played by Timothee Chalamet was like 19 I think while making the movie. But he plays a 16-17 year old. So it was legal for Chalamet to grab Oliver's ball-sack. Oliver was played by Armie Hammer.
Acting-wise the movie kills it. Timothée Chalamet is very good as always. It's hard to think of him as an adult, because he looks 14. But he is older than me. And in this movie he has enough dirt on him to make him look more like an anorexic drug addict than a 14 year old. But he is supposedly way younger than himself in the movie. I would guess around 20. So his casting is nearly perfect. Along side him Guadagnino found another actress that is older than me and even older than Chalamet, and she plays an 18 year old. Her name is Taylor Russell and somehow both she and Chalamet just refuse to age, I guess. The movie also includes a rather unexpected role from Mark Rylance who plays nice and kind old men in Spielberg films. But here he plays a truly terrifying cannibal rapist.