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- 2017
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h 12 m
- 2017
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h 12 m
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 (Mich...
Directed By: Luca Guadagnino
Written By: James Ivory, André Aciman
- 2017
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h 12 m
- 2017
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h 12 m
Call Me by Your Name
7.9
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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 (Mich...
Directed By: Luca Guadagnino
Written By: James Ivory, André Aciman
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 53 Critic Reviews
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96% Positive
51 Reviews
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4% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 53 Critic Reviews
94
96% Positive
51 Reviews
51 Reviews
4% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Chalamet, with his restless, impatient physicality and a face as sensual and sculpted as a fallen angel from a Caravaggio painting, is quite simply astonishing.
Chalamet gives the performance of the year. By any name, this is a masterpiece.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 1,191 User Ratings
7.9
80% Positive
957 Ratings
957 Ratings
7% Mixed
85 Ratings
85 Ratings
13% Negative
149 Ratings
149 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 1,191 User Ratings
7.9
80% Positive
957 Ratings
957 Ratings
7% Mixed
85 Ratings
85 Ratings
13% Negative
149 Ratings
149 Ratings
Chalamet is amazing in this movie. Guadagnino's direction is impeccable. No movie has managed to make me feel the way this movie made me. It's indescribable, just watching to feel.
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Far and away the best movie of the year.
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.
Guadagnino does a remarkable job of capturing the tension and anxiety that comes with not only first love, but first-time queer romances.
Perhaps best remembered as a showcase for Stuhlbarg, who delivers a poignantly beautiful monologue that eclipses everything else in the film.
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.
Call me by your name es una película de romance y drama italiana estrenada en el 2017. Con una duración de 1.30 minutos. Dirigida por Luca Guadagnino, Guionizada por James Ivory, protagonizada por Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer entre otros. En 2017 ganadora de un Oscar a mejor guion adaptado. Incluyendo 4 nominaciones, película y actor (Timothée Chalamet). En el mismo año nominada en el festival de Toronto y fue la segunda finalista a mejor película. Es una historia ocurrida en un verano de 1983, el padre de Elio un profesor de arqueología italiano invita a un joven norteamericano llamado Oliver, quien será su asistente de arqueología en un proyecto muy importante. Al principio a Elio no le cae bien Oliver, pero con el tiempo empiezan a despertarse diferentes sentimientos y tensiones entre ellos. Está película trasmite muchas emociones, es muy bonito como a pesar del año en donde se basan los hechos. Las personas entendían y aceptaban la ****. De algún modo los personajes tenían más libertad para expresar su amor. Es interesante como el director plantea el ejemplo de Elio y Oliver, de cómo comienza a despertar su amor a través del otro, y con el paso de los días es mas fuerte lo que sienten. El desarrollo es lo que más conecta al público que ve la película. Porque se ve como ellos aprovechan cada espacio que tiene solos, para poder amarse de la manera en que lo hacen. Esas emociones tan intensas que muestran atrapan mucho al público. Como toda película dramática tiene un final muy doloroso para los personajes principales. Esta es una película que sinceramente toca las fibras más profundas de los espectadores. Para terminar, en una película muy recomendada para aquellas personas amantes del romance y drama, en está filme podrán encontrar diferentes escenas de pasión y amor una increíble combinación; sin duda alguna, es una cinta cinematográfica en donde hay mucha valentía e inspiración.
Merece una calificación de 10 estrellas, en una escala de 0 a 10.
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The meeting between two boys, Elio, a sensitive and educated teenager, and Oliver, a spontaneous, fascinating and full of life 24-year-old student, marks the beginning of an unforgettable summer in the splendid setting of a villa in Cremasco, Italy.
For the first time in his career, Guadagnino puts technique at the service of history (and not vice versa), managing to make a good (even if not exceptional) film.
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Not very entertaining or emotive for me. It was pretty boring. Basically a story about nothing except a how 17 year old boy is attracted to a 20 something man. The dialogue is boring and sadly, for Italy, there is little or no gorgeous scenery. Spoiler alert.
The young boy pissed me off by having intercourse with a young girl his age two times, then immediately dumps her to be with the boy he was attracted to in the first place. I felt the parents of the boy were totally unrealistic as well. Not one ounce of humor in the movie. Good acting, but eh.
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This is a very hard review for me to write as I am a pushover, a ****, an incurable romantic for love stories especially one that may be about a **** couple so I was looking forward to “Call Me by Your Name”. I’ve read nothing but raves about the film when in film festivals and it has been nominated for the Golden Globe and sure to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Film.
The acting, as reported, is very good with a few minor quibbles but that mainly has to do with the story, the scenery in Northern Italy is at times breathtaking and at other times quiet, serene while the musical soundtrack at times can be jarring here and there.
While there is good chemistry between Armie Hammer, playing 24-year-old Oliver, and Timothee Chalamet as 17-year-old Elio the much-needed passion that is written and hinted about isn’t there in the writing. The former has been hired as a summer intern to the latter’s father, an archaeology professor, Mr. Perlman played by Michael Stuhlbarg.
While the main story is about Elio, a very well rounded educated, piano playing, multilingual youngster, coming of age that is experiencing sexual confusion, Oliver is the very handsome, sexy, sexual, amiable stranger who Elio is attracted to.
The main failure of the movie, surprisingly enough, is James Ivory who has written and directed movies that showed sexiness and sex in more rounded, physical, explicit and meaningfulness, such as “Maurice”, than in the screenplay he has written for this film. To a certain extent he is aided and abetted by the director Luca Guadannino.
In a 131 minute film there are, maybe, about 30 moving minutes, one that is funny involving a peach, another of Timothee Chalamant in a silent, moving, several minutes in length headshot and one startling, emotionally involving monologue by Michael Stuhlbarg along with maybe 30 minutes of scenery.
“Call Me by Your Name” is rated R for some hinted at sex, some language and except for Stuhlbarg’s moving, brilliant monologue it was mainly a big disappointment to me.
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Production Company
Frenesy Film Company,
La Cinéfacture,
RT Features,
Water's End Productions,
M.Y.R.A. Entertainment,
Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT),
Lombardia Film Commission
Release Date Nov 24, 2017
Duration 2 h 12 m
Rating R
Tagline Is it better to speak or die?
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Nominations
Gold Derby Awards
• 4 Wins & 16 Nominations
