Call Me by Your Name
Tender drama about the budding romance between a seventeen-year-old boy and a somewhat older man in the sun-drenched Italian countryside. Reprise on the occasion of the upcoming release of Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s new film.
The sensitive and cultivated seventeen-year-old Elio, an only child of the American-Italian Perlman family, is spending another lazy summer at his parents’ villa when Oliver arrives. Oliver is an academic who comes to help Elio’s father, an eminent professor and specialist in Greco-Roman culture, with his work. The visitor will be their guest for the next six weeks during the summer. A charming 24-year-old American scholar, Oliver is breezy, spontaneous, handsome, and he’s the kind of person who charms everyone he meets. The meeting of these two young men sets in motion the danger of an unbridled adolescent passion in the setting of the beautiful and languid Italian countryside.
Luca Guadagnino (IO SONO L'AMORE, A BIGGER SPLASH) tells the story with overwhelming intensity, filling every scene with life. The film received four Oscar nominations, one of which was awarded: to James Ivory for the best adapted screenplay.