The Star Wide Receiver Who Has All of College Football Panicking The Casual Marvel Fan’s Guide to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 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.
