Italy, USA – Drama, Romance – Year: 2017 – Running time: 132 mins
Languages: English, Italian, French, German, Hebrew
Audience Response:
Rating: 
(3.9 from 22 responses)
- Excellent’: 3 votes
- ‘Very Good’: 13 votes
- ‘Good’: 6 votes
- ‘Satisfactory’: 0 votes
- ‘Poor’: 0 votes
Read the comments here or visit our “Call Me By Your Name” discussion page.
Synopsis:
It’s the summer of 1983; a precocious 17-year-old, Elio, is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student working as an intern for Elio’s father. A coming-of-age love story unfolds in this ravishingly beautiful movie, a summer romance saturated with poetic languor and a deeply sophisticated sensuality.
You may not realize how strong the acting is until you replay the movie in your head later.
Ty Burr (Boston Globe)
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Susperia (2018) / A Bigger Splash (2015) / I Am Love (2009)
Cast:
Armie Hammer … Oliver
Timothée Chalamet … Elio
Michael Stuhlbarg … Mr Perlman
Amira Casar … Annella Perlman
Esther Garrel … Marzia
(for full cast, and more information, see “Call Me By Your Name” in IMDB)
CFC Film Notes
Based on the novel by André Aciman, ‘Call Me By Your Name’ was selected as the 2017 Film of the Year by both The Guardian and The Independent. It also won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2018 Academy Awards.
Aciman’s novel, published in 2007, was highly acclaimed, with Charles Kaiser of the Washington Post writing “If you have ever been the victim of obsessive love – a force greater than yourself which pulls you inextricably toward the object of your desire – you will recognize every nuance of André Aciman’s superb novel”.
It doesn’t follow that a great book will be translated into great cinema but few can doubt the Luca Guadagnino film has managed to create something which equals, if not surpasses the material on which it is based.
Praise has come from many quarters –
Golly, this is magnificent. An exquisite romance, a nuanced coming-of-age tale and a perfect portrait of an Italian summer.
Ed Potton, The Times
There is such tenderness to this film. I was overwhelmed by it.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Graceful, heartfelt and infused with a generous spirit, this is a rare and lovely drama.
Allan Hunter, The Daily Express
….the final shot, will stop you cold and gnaw at your heart for days, until you pick yourself up and take yourself back to the movies to spend the summer again with Elio and Oliver.
Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
Summary:-
“It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian, 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 specialising in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favour 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 charming American scholar working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Selected UK reviews:
The Observer (Wendy Ide)
Sight & Sound (Catherine Wheatley)
London Evening Standard (Charlotte O’Sullivan)
We always welcome audience comments on the films we have shown, please add your comments to the blog below:
