CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old young man, 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 (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio’s sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24 year-old American college graduate student working on …
Release Date: 24 November 2017Runtime: 132 min
Stars:
- Amira Casar
- André Aciman
- Antonio Rimoldi
- Armie Hammer
- Elena Bucci
- Esther Garrel
- Marco Sgrosso
- Michael Stuhlbarg
- Peter Spears
- Timothée Chalamet
- Vanda Capriolo
- Victoire Du Bois
Director: Luca Guadagnino