Wide release 1/19/18
Viewed February 24, 2018 somewhere in PA
IMBd: 8.0
IMBd: 8.0
RT Critic: 95 Audience: 85
Critic's Consensus: Call Me by Your Name offers a melancholy, powerfully affecting portrait of first love, empathetically acted by Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
Critic's Consensus:
Cag: 5/Loved it
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Written by James Ivory, and based on the book of the same title
Written by James Ivory, and based on the book of the same title
Sony Pictures Classics
Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet
My comments: How can you go wrong with a lush set and setting in northern Italy; two wonderful, likable protagonists - one adorable and one gorgeous - and a lovely love story? Then throw in some particularly cool music, a thundering powerful waterfall, a few different romantic languages and you have this great indie movie. I liked it a lot. It was so weird that when the movie ended, the entire very-full movie theater was totally silent for quite a few minutes, even as they collected their belongings and got up to leave. (I wish I could have the script to the father's soliloquy to the son near the very end of the movie. It was pretty cool.)
RT/ IMDb Summary: 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 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.
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