By Ben Pearson/Jan. 6, 2018 9:00 am EST
Now there’s one more way to keep the film at the forefront of your mind: watching a new music video from musician Sufjan Stevens, who provided multiple songs to the movie’s soundtrack. Check out the full video for the airy and relaxing “Mystery of Love,” which contains some clips from the movie that haven’t appeared in any of its trailers so far.
The video opens and closes with the image of a peach – which, if you’ve seen the film or read about its infamous peach scene, you’ll never be able to see in the same way again. And like the movie itself, it artfully juxtaposes the lithe, sweaty bodies of protagonists Elio (Timothee Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer) with the chiseled bodies captured in Greek and Roman statues. (The footage of the actors comes from the film itself, but the footage of the statues was shot at M.A.N., the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Naples.)
The fingerpicking guitar and breathy vocals of Stevens’ original song are a perfect fit for the warm and richly textured feelings Guadagnino’s film conjures. This music is such an important part of painting the larger picture of the movie and capturing the tone the director was aiming for that I would not be surprised if Stevens ends up winning an Oscar for this tune when the ceremony rolls around. He contributed two more songs to the soundtrack as well – “Visions of Gideon” and “Futile Devices” – so here’s hoping he at least gets a nod when the nominations are unveiled to the public on January 23, 2018.
