Call Me by Your Name

Film - 2017

7,7

140K

Call Me by Your Name it's a movie with Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel Full cast. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Original title Call Me by Your Name, runtime 132 minutes. Genres Romance, Drama.

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Emiliano Baglio

Call me be your name. A film as beautiful as it is precious and necessary. To fully understand Call me be your name it is necessary to reconstruct, albeit briefly, the troubled history that led to its creation. It all began when American producers Peter Spears and Howard Rosenman purchased the rights to the novel of the same name by André Aciman. Initially, director James Ivory (A Room with a View, Maurice, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, Casa Howard, The Remains of the Day etc etc) was called to write the film adaptation. Soon, however, the film began to pass from hand to hand and the names of possible directors followed one another. Guadagnino comes into play as a location consultant until the Italian director himself proposes a jointly directed film. Project foundered due to excessively high costs. The final result is a work that is the result of close collaboration between the two authors and in which the two poetics interpenetrate perfectly, giving us a film as beautiful as it is precious. We are in the summer of 1983. The young Elio (Timothée Chalamet) spends the summer idly in his parents' house until yet another student arrives to help his archaeologist father, as every year; Oliver (Armie Hammer). A controversial relationship is immediately established between the two, initially based on distrust and perhaps also on Elio's envy towards that older and more self-confident boy who seems to attract everyone's admiration, especially of the countless girls present. While Elio flirts with Marzia (Esther Garrel), the attraction towards Oliver grows which will lead to a love destined to consummate in the short summer period but which will change the two protagonists forever. Looking at Call me be your name, rather than the names cited by Guadagnino himself as points of reference, namely the directors Jean Renoir, Jacques Rivette, Éric Rohmer and Bernardo Bertolucci, one comes to Read all