Artists have long been obsessed with freezing the season. L.M. Montgomery wrote of an "enchanted summer" on Prince Edward Island that her readers return to again and again. In cinema, Call Me By Your Name (2017) is perhaps the definitive modern text of Eternal Summer—a film where Italian apricots, midnight swims, and billowy shirts create a protective bubble against the real world. That film ends in winter, but the audience remembers only the light.
Artists have long been obsessed with freezing the season. L.M. Montgomery wrote of an "enchanted summer" on Prince Edward Island that her readers return to again and again. In cinema, Call Me By Your Name (2017) is perhaps the definitive modern text of Eternal Summer—a film where Italian apricots, midnight swims, and billowy shirts create a protective bubble against the real world. That film ends in winter, but the audience remembers only the light.
