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.
