Call Me by Your Name

Name: Call Me by Your Name
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: November 24, 2017
Duration: 132 min
Rating: 93
Cast: Amira Casar, Antonio Rimoldi, Armie Hammer, Elena Bucci, Esther Garrel

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: November 24, 2017 | R

Starring: Amira Casar, Antonio Rimoldi, Armie Hammer, Elena Bucci, Esther Garrel, Marco Sgrosso, Michael Stuhlbarg, Timothée Chalamet, Vanda Capriolo, Victoire Du Bois

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 (MichaelIt’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 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 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.… Expand

Director: Luca Guadagnino

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 132 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Sep 24, 2019

There is such tenderness to this film. I was overwhelmed by it. Read full review

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Alissa Wilkinson

Nov 22, 2017

It summons an erotic orientation toward the world with all its power, and then pours it onto the audience. It is, undoubtedly, Guadagnino’s masterpiece. Read full review

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IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jan 23, 2017

The final beats of Guadagnino’s adaptation galvanize two hours of simmering uncertainty into a gut-wrenchingly wistful portrait of two people trying to find themselves before it’s too late. Read full review

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Rex Reed

Nov 28, 2017

Call Me By Your Name is a masterpiece of subtle emotions, intense sensuality and breathtaking beauty. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Dec 21, 2017

Call Me by Your Name is a lush, heartbreakingly beautiful film about first love, but also the glories of youth, when everything is new and any number of paths open before you. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Dec 14, 2017

Chalamet is excellent, saving his purest acting for the killer final shot several minutes in length, when we finally see what these weeks with Oliver have meant to him. Read full review

Kyle Turner

Oct 4, 2017

Though Chalamet and Hammer are up to the task of communicating a competition of desire with as few words as possible, they offer up a dare and a proposition that Guadagnino and his film never fully take on. Maybe they’re afraid of the consequences. Read full review

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hepwa

Nov 24, 2017

Where do I begin? The novel grabbed my heart in January and by July I was touring Italy, reading passages on the beach in the town where its set, strolling through the side street in Rome where Oliver and Elio share their final night together. It is the gay romance of my lifetime, havingWhere do I begin? The novel grabbed my heart in January and by July I was touring Italy, reading passages on the beach in the town where its set, strolling through the side street in Rome where Oliver and Elio share their final night together. It is the gay romance of my lifetime, having grown up in the era of its setting, asking the same questions of myself that Elio does (only failing the question, "Is it better to speak or to die?"). Elio doesn't fail - he speaks and it changes his life, for better or worse. The movie captures that turning point in his young adulthood and brings it to glorious life, replete with the inevitable pain. Hopefully without spoiling anything, the fire that is lit within him will burn for a lifetime and into the viewer's heart during a crushing final scene that glances over every possible emotion but ending on determination and hope. For the love of God, don't leave this movie when the credits start to roll. And be a good movie citizen and let everyone you know who will be seeing it to do the same. Guadanigno, the director, is painterly but nothing without the astonishing performances, especially from Timothee Chalamet who brings Elio to life in a way I haven't seen a young actor do since Timothy Hutton broke through in "Ordinary People" almost forty years ago. Armie Hammer crosses the Rubicon with his performance as Oliver, becoming the master of his creative domain and I can't wait to see what he does in the future. Stuhlbarg as Elio's father is kind, compassionate, clear-eyed and so very wise and his final talk with his son is almost Shakespearean in word and delivery. While the words are never spoken, his monologue is the paternal 'to be or not to be' that every gay kid would cherish and every straight kid needs to hear. The women are all highly memorable and its a shame that they're a bit lost in the shuffle with the acclaim for the film (that none of them are American actors might play a part). Call Me By Your Name is a work of cinematic art, the kind that is rarely given and even more rarely appreciated. But it exists and thanks to its creators, from page to screen, I feel like a wiser, less cynical person. When is the last time a movie had that sort of effect. 10/10… Expand

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ebambirra

Jan 25, 2018

É triste ver um filme tão incrível estar recebendo tamanho boicote nos cinemas, pelo menos aqui no Brasil. É incrível a forma como o filme conseguiu traduzir toda a carga sentimental do livro em simples olhares, nas atuações maravilhosas dos protagonistas, que têm uma química monstruosa.

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Fyil

Mar 12, 2018

Beautiful movie. It's not a movie about prejudice, it's about love, about the journey of two people toward love. It doesn't matter your sexual preference, this movie will make you remember the first time you fell in love and how this is such a amazing feeling.

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smoothie

Dec 19, 2017

This movie profoundly moved me and everyone around me in the theater. I think people are moved by the movie because it transports them to a time and place where people are kind and feeling are pure.

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yellowpensorez

Sep 27, 2021

Это один из лучших романтических фильмов, которые я видел за десятилетия.
Он определенно покорил мое сердце -

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DogeGamer2015

Jul 4, 2021

Es una película italiana de gran calidad; la trama es muy buena, las actuaciones son sublimes y la cinematografía es hermosa; es muy recomendable.

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Rosiejackson

Jul 21, 2018

Given is a well done movie, still is a bad version of Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty. Great cinematography, superb acting by Chamalet, and great photography. What I can’t grasp is how they got nominated for the screenplay. The story is NOT a coming of age of a young teen. This is a very slickGiven is a well done movie, still is a bad version of Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty. Great cinematography, superb acting by Chamalet, and great photography. What I can’t grasp is how they got nominated for the screenplay. The story is NOT a coming of age of a young teen. This is a very slick pedophile grooming a an hormone raging easy pray. Where is this big LOVE story that everybody see? IF you are a very young person (15/25) maybe it might even appeal to you. The first time I saw it, I was very ditracted by Chamalet’s acting and all those trite and clique ideas of Tuscany’ paradise of “fresh apricot juice bucolic ochards and nature that feels like you can touch. BUT, take the smoke away, and you have a very calculated but VERY dangerous message hidden: a kid is having sex with an adult with the blessing of his family. What horrified me is how the gay community is defending this. Also, how come we are pointing figers at religion when in the movie is all over the place? This is a very wrong message to send out, it doesn’t help gay people it CRUCIFIED THEM.… Expand

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