Call Me By Your Name
Call Me By Your Name is a beautiful and powerful coming of age love story with remarkable performances from Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet.
Directed by Italian movie maker Luca Guadagnino , Call Me By Your Nameis a victory of film , adapted from the novel of the same name by André Aciman , with James Ivory penning the movie book . Gaudagnino kicked off his feature film life history in 1999 withThe Protagonists , but rose to gibbousness with his 2005 film , Melissa P.He has since also helm the psychological dramaA Bigger Splash(2015 ) , which serve as the second moving picture in the director’sDesiretrilogy - with the first being the 2009 release , I Am Love , and the terminal episode beingCall Me By Your Name . ForCall Me By Your Name , Guadagnino team up with cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom and transcription artist Sufjan Stevens , the latter of which composed news call for the film . Call Me By Your Nameis a beautiful and powerful advent of geezerhood honey story with remarkable performance from Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet .
Call Me By Your Nametakes office somewhere in northerly Italy at the beginning of the summer of 1983 , when 17 - yr - older Elio Perlman ( Chalamet ) meets American academic Oliver ( Hammer ) , who is studying under Elio ’s college professor sire while appease with the Perlmans at their Pancho Villa for the season . Oliver expend his day run with Dr. Lyle Perlman ( Michael Stuhlbarg ) , but get along well enough with the intact family , including Lyle ’s wife / Elio ’s mother Annella ( Amira Casar ) and the syndicate ’s housekeeper Mafalda ( Vanda Capriolo ) . Elio builds a friendly relationship with Oliver , though they have some reversal thanks to certain awkward interactions and miscommunications . Meanwhile , Elio expend much of his sentence with a girlfriend his own long time , Marzia ( Esther Garrel ) .
Still , Elio and Oliver grow closer as the summer advance , bonding over their shared Jewish inheritance and beloved of cognition . They spend more and more meter together , and Elio shows Oliver around the Italian countryside , specially his favorite place to float and read . After some false starts , the two begin to explore their sexuality together , despite Oliver ’s reservations and worries about corrupting Elio - as well as his fear that they will be break by Elio ’s parent . As the summertime draws to a close , Oliver train to depart Italy and return home to the United States . But , he and Elio attempt to make the most of their remain time together , with their kinship deepening even further . Still , the two are eventually force to face up the reality of their circumstance and make up one’s mind how - or if - they can stay their relationship .
Music plays an significant role inCall Me By Your Name , peculiarly since Elio is a musician - his parent often ask him to play the piano when they have client for dinner party - and he spends a great deal of time transcribing music he listen to on a now - vintage cassette thespian . Whether it ’s The Psychedelic Furs ' " get laid My Way " , which becomes Elio and Oliver ’s song of sorts , or the original songs by Stevens , Call Me By Your Nameuses its soundtrack to set the tonicity and intensify the emotion of a scene . Rather than melt into the screen background , the music ofCall Me By Your Nameoften calls attention to itself , but in such a way that does n’t distract from the film . Rather , it elevates the movie , serve to cultivate the environment in which Elio and Oliver ’s story is recite , while never shadow their narrative .
Further , the visuals inCall Me By Your Name , which was shot on 35 mm motion picture by cinematographer Mukdeeprom , are truly beautiful . The movie makes exceptional use of its setting in Italy , where the projection shoot on location , make whoopie in the plush countryside with lingering shot that reserve viewers to fully immerse themselves in the place setting . Undoubtedly , the reality of the environment translate to take thanks to Mukdeeprom and Guadagnino ’s piece of work . They especially put the villa used for the setting of the Perlman family home to undecomposed use , letting audiences search its mystical way and orchards as Elio and Oliver explore themselves and each other . At the last of the sidereal day , the shots of the Italian countryside are mean to serve the taradiddle at the heart ofCall Me By Your Name , but they also provide a great deal of rich visuals to captivate audiences - and captivate they for certain will .
Still , even with beautiful scenery and delightful music , the success ofCall Me By Your Namerests on the shoulders of Hammer and Chalamet . gratefully , both actors fork up entirely compelling and heart wrenching performances as Oliver and Elio . Chalamet plays the precocious unseasoned man come up of eld and exploring his sexuality , while Hammer portrays a slimly older and more mature , but conflicted , man who is also exploring his spirit of attraction , though both are equally magic in their own ways . The yoke are aided by Ivory ’s script , but it ’s the small second between Chalamet and Hammer - their pick in their physicality and the liaison in their bearing together - that truly sell the love storey between Elio and Oliver . Call Me By Your Nameis a victory almost entirely thanks to Hammer and Chalamet , whose performances should receive some much - merit awards recognition this yr .
Of course , the lead actors ' operation aren’tCall Me By Your Name’sonly durability . In fact , Stuhlbarg offers his own heartfelt turn as Elio ’s male parent . Though Elio ’s parents are more of background fixtures for much of the film , Stuhlbarg is given a monologue at one point that capsulise his own quietly powerful performance . It ’s one exceptional consequence of many throughoutCall Me By Your Namethat offers perceptivity into fictional character who do n’t often get to be the star of their own stories in Hollywood . The human relationship between Elio and Oliver is one some viewers may not be intimate with - while others will have it off it well - but at the spirit ofCall Me By Your Nameis a universal love story , and the tale of someone discovering who they are through that dearest .
As such , Call Me By Your Nameis both familiar and fresh , with all the emotion of a truly fantastic honey narration , and the exploitation of a noteworthy coming of age narrative . While there may be those who drop a line offCall Me By Your Namebecause it sport leads who are n’t often depicted in mainstream stories popularize by Hollywood - and , on a larger scale leaf , society - in any material elbow room , make no mistake that Guadagnino ’s late picture offers a approach of age love story to which almost anyone can connect . With the addition of Stevens ' enthrall original music ( and all the music included in the film ) as well as the mesmerizing visuals , Call Me By Your Nameis a truly unique and aroused moviegoing experience - one that will no doubt be a major role player in the forthcoming award time of year .
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Call Me By Your Nameis now encounter in a limited U.S. theatrical release and will expand to more theaters over the forthcoming week . It be given 132 minutes and is stag R for sexual content , nudity and some language .
ground on the 2007 novel of the same name , Call Me By Your Name tell the story of Elio Perlman ( Timothée Chalamet ) , the 17 - twelvemonth - old Logos of a professor whose life is changed forever when one of his male parent ’s grad students , Oliver ( Armie Hammer ) , come to stick with his family in Northern Italy during the summertime of 1983 . ab initio indifferent to the older Oliver , the human relationship between the two men blossoms into a passionate amour over the course of the summer . Michael Stuhlbarg and Esther Garrel also asterisk .
Based on the 2007 novel of the same name, Call Me By Your Name tells the story of Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), the 17-year-old son of a professor whose life is changed forever when one of his father’s grad students, Oliver (Armie Hammer), comes to stay with his family in Northern Italy during the summer of 1983. Initially indifferent to the older Oliver, the relationship between the two men blossoms into a passionate affair over the course of the summer. Michael Stuhlbarg and Esther Garrel also star.
