Metrograph

“One of Vecchiali’s most moving and formally audacious films, Encore charts a decade in its protagonist’s life, each year visited in a virtuoso 10-minute long take, including a yet to be topped sequence moving on and off the trains of the Paris Métro. Boldly breaking the French film industry’s silence surrounding AIDS with its HIV-positive, sexually active hero, the film would have been an inspiration for Luca Guadagnino, whose on-hold Call Me By Your Name sequel is planned to begin with Timothée Chalamet’s character brought to tears as he watches it in the cinema.”—Series curators Bingham Bryant and Graham Carter