A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

Name: A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Director: James Ivory
Released: 1998

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.

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Call Me by Your Name (2017)

Directed by Luca Guadagnino

Director Luca Guadagnino (2010's " I Am Love "), who is incapable of crafting an aesthetically ugly image, and writer James Ivory (1998's " A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries "), adapting from André Aciman's Lambda Literary Award-winning 2007 novel, have fashioned a coming-of-age tale of lived-in depth and astonishing sensuality.

Dustin Putman • The Film File

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Based on the novel by André Aciman, with a script written by the great James Ivory ( A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries ), director Luca Guadagnino’s ( I Am Love , A Bigger Splash ) ravishing, gorgeously cinematic Call Me by Your Name is a feast for the senses.

Sara Michelle Fetters

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