Academy Award Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay
In the summer of 1983, in the north of Italy, Elio Perlman, (Timothe´e Chalamet) a 17- year-old American spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa lazily transcribing music and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). One day Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old graduate student working on his doctorate arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever. Call Me By Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, is based on the novel by Andre´ Aciman.
Press
"Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name is a cinematic ravishment of the senses with a strong narrative tethering all the feelings and sensuous surfaces." - New York Times
"The bubbling strain between the leading men is the kind of intimate, authentic work that feels several steps above movie acting." - Star Tribune
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