Call Me by Your Name (2017)

Release date: 2018-01-19
Country: Italy|France
Language: English|Italian|French|German|Hebrew
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Production Co: Frenesy Film Company, La Cinéfacture, RT Features
Genre: Romance, Drama
Rating: 7.9/10
Length: 2h 12min

Storyline

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It's the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old young man, spends his days in his family's 17th-century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio's sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American college graduate student working on his...

Plot Keywords

gay romance, male male kiss, father son relationship, american abroad, gay sex, bisexual, first gay sexual experience, gay teenager, self discovery, older man younger man relationship, lgbt, gay, playing piano, gay son, first love, coming of age, gay crush, gay protagonist, gay couple, year 1983

Short Review

A modern-day Visconti, Italian director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) grants us entry into a world not only of wealth but of culture, which can be just as liberating.