What The Kids in the Hall Taught Me About Feminism The name Luca, meanwhile, is surely another coincidence, since Luca is a very common Italian name.
According to him, this coming-of-age story takes place in a “pre-puberty world.” The Call Me by Your Name-esque elements, he says, were based instead on his own experiences growing up with a childhood friend in Genoa. “I was really keen to talk about a friendship before girlfriends and boyfriends come in to complicate things,” he said at a press event. But Casarosa has insisted that the movie’s central relationship is purely platonic. And these jokes were only further encouraged by the fact that the new Pixar movie shares a name with that Oscar-winning queer romance’s director, Luca Guadagnino. The first trailers for the movie-about two boys, one more worldly than the other, growing closer while sharing swims and bike rides in the Italian countryside-invited some inevitable jokes about it being a kiddie Call Me by Your Name. When director Enrico Casarosa says he didn’t intend to make Luca a gay romance, I believe him. This article discusses the ending of Pixar’s Luca.
