Call Me By Your Name

***Dir - Luca Guadagnino***

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Despite liking the premise and the beautiful location this film takes place, I was bored halfway the first time I’ve tried it. I’ve recently made another attempt, while I did sit through the entirety of it, I got bored again midway. The serene, sun kissed roads of semi-urban Italy, the meadows, the brick ponds and small and shallow water body that glitters like pearl under direct sunlight could only do so much. Yet I was enjoying the film. I asked myself, how is that I was amused and bored by it simultaneously and my answer would be miscast in case of the character ‘Oliver’ and spending too much time developing a functional relationship.

However, there is a caveat here, firstly, I must admit when I say miscast, I mean the on-screen connection between Elio and Oliver felt unlikely and secondly, perhaps this is a wrong point of view to assume as I am unable to see things from a gay perspective, hence this is highly subjective. Although in my defense, I want to emphasize that I am able to care for homosexual relationships on-screen (also off if you’re wondering, meh) and I can feel the emotion in most iterations of it. But this one wasn’t working for me. I could say that, like many portrayals of heterosexual relationships feel wrong to me as well, the actors do not go well together, and this too will ring in the same tempo.

The film entertains a laid back lifestyle with lush countryside, fresh food, warmth and jovial relationships. If it was to stick to that idea and did not explore the central story, if the film was about nothing but the life itself, I don’t think the runtime would bother me at all, I would crave for more. Amarcord by Federico Fellini can be a case in point. The multicultural and multilingual conversations were also something I found worth watching.

The problem is the story kept going back to the deuteragonists and tried to build their relationship that had little spark and often times it felt it was dragging on. I guess the filmmaker/screenwriter wanted to show it as a confusing and tremendously courageous leap towards such a relationship in that period of time, and wanted to capture the tumultuous journey of it-- off and on, merry-go-round. Sadly, it didn’t work for me. I suppose, there should have been some sort of barriers to their relationship, that could work as a contrasting key point. Events that were laid out in the film progressed without many confrontations.

Although the reason was expressed at the end of the film through the dialogue between son and father. And that monologue from the father was actually quite beautiful and heart touching. That’s the only emotional moment from the film from me and I could feel the solidarity to some degree with people all over the world, who are barred from loving the people they want to, the way they want to.

I would still recommend this film to people any day, as my personal take might differ from a potential viewer. And this film was a major success in 2017. Let me know if you’ve already seen it and how you’ve liked it.

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But when Elio and the new internist Oliver (Armie Hammer) meet, they will discover things inside them that will change their lives forever…

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Esta es la historia de Elio(Timothée Chalamet) el es un italoamericano que durante las vacaciones va junto a su familia a una pequeña gran casa que tienen en una villa en Italia y su padre que es un excelente profesor de arqueología recibe cada año un nuevo internista que lo ayuda con cada una de sus investigaciones

Pero cuando Elio y el nuevo internista Oliver(Armie Hammer) se conozcan van a descubrir cosas dentro de ellos que les va a cambiar la vida para siempre..

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Call Me by Your Name is a vividly captured tale of first love between two young men. Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, it has strong sexual content. While nudity is brief and fleeting (a woman's breasts, a man's buttocks) and the sex scenes aren't graphically explicit, there are multiple scenes of lovemaking, both between a teen girl and boy and between a teen boy and a man in his 20s. Oral sex is implied, and there's a scene in which a man ejaculates into a fruit, and the fruit is handled after. Teens smoke frequently, and both teens and young adults drink, at least once to excess.

The film is directed by Luca Guadagnino, He is a director and producer, known for Call Me by Your Name (2017), Io sono l'amore (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015).

WHAT'S THE STORY? CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, based on André Aciman's novel of the same name, is the chronicle of a brilliant teen's first love -- a same-sex romance that takes place during an ideal Italian summer. Young Elio (Timothée Chalamet), an American multi-instrumentalist, is with his parents, both academics, on vacation at their summer home. After his professor father's (Michael Stuhlbarg) latest grad student resident, Oliver (Armie Hammer), arrives, Elio soon finds himself struggling with strong, unexpected feelings.

MOVIE INFO Rating: R (for sexual content, nudity and some language) Genre: Drama, Romance Directed By: Luca Guadagnino Written By: James Ivory In theaters: Jan 19, 2018 Wide Runtime: 130 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Cast: Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Timothée Chalamet, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois

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This love-coming-of-age drama was based on the Andréa Aciman's novel of the same name, and the screenplay is a credible but simultaneous, unique and authentic film adaptation by famous director and screenwriter James Ivory. Although, in the novel, the main character in his monologues refers to past events, Guadagnino decides on an unbiased position in which characters are as surprised as viewers, thus creating a story of hidden and silent love, but big enough to go with the classics.

Call me by your name, located "somewhere in northern Italy", reminds viewers that a small part of the paradise wrapped in fascinating nature and sun, which will eventually hide euphoric and impatient love among trees, doesn't need to be defined.
The centerpiece of the plot is seventeen-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) whose parents are charismatic and sophisticated couple of intellectuals who are in love with art and literature, and in the same spirit they raised a son who deals with copying and processing of classical music. His father (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a distinguished professor and archaeologist dealing with the study of ancient culture and art, and the mother (Amira Casar) a translator who translates and reviews texts from classical literature.



Elio's family is spending summer in a 17th-century villa located in a small Italian town, and his father hosts one young scientist every year to work together on archaeological research. The film begins with the arrival of young and attractive American scientist Oliver (Armie Hammer), who will spend the summer with the family.

In this idyllic setting, Oliver found a friend in Elio, whom the family assigned as a guide through a new environment, so the two young men spend almost all their free time together losing themselves in the nature or on the streets of a romantic city, and often in the rooms and garden luxurious villas where they expressed feelings of mutual admiration and intimacy.

In one of the first days of his stay, Oliver's and Elio's father, began discussing the origin of the word "apricot", which, as an inevitable summer fruit, permeates the film as a hanging object, and after Oliver impressively observes that the origin of the word carries the meaning of "premature", it becomes a symbol of concealed sexuality as it will eventually come to tell Elio in the story of growing up.



Call me by your name portrays the path of friendship that was born out of love for art and humorous conversational diction, and matured in the exchange of shy views passing through the shared bathroom to ultimately turn into hidden and impatient love. This feeling of impatience will mark Elio's adolescent insecurity and enthusiasm and joint efforts to perpetuate their sophisticated sensuality whose main antagonist becomes a limited time for love.

Guadagnino's careful and pedantic selection of scenery, in which almost every element participates in the creation of film poetics, insists on nature, and loves the story of the lyrical elements of melancholy and longing. The extraordinary power of this love story is it's subtlety and intimacy, but also the possibility that, despite the fact that it's a secret, it becomes loud enough to be felt and understood.

Lovers who go against the circumstances and the times don't want to be dramatic, and their love becomes layered and enthusiastic, impatient, and real enough to be able to identify the infinite number of first love whose taste ties to those who had the chance to experience it. The combination of romantic and idyllic motives with the motives of music, body and desire Call me by your name in a way isolates from the everyday reality that the summer break will finally have to come to an end.



The end of Elio's and Oliver's relationship is not a moment in which feelings begin to fade, regardless of whether we will understand it as a continuation of love or the beginning of what was born out of it. Emotions that have so far signified passion and affection are not necessarily transformed into bad memories.
These are words of understanding and wisdom that at the very end of film is transmitted by Elio's father, reminding him that by suppressing pain and grief he will also suppresses the memories that will ultimately remain with him. Such a comforting gesture of parental empathy and gentleness is an ideal reminder of the importance of family support and patience.

I have never seen a gay movie this successful. It is not the story itself that sold out, but the manner it was told and directed made it beautiful.

MOVIE INFO Title: Call me by your name Rating: R (for sexual content, nudity and some language) Genre: Drama, Romance Casts : Armie Hammer Timothée Chalamet Michael Stuhlbarg Amira Casar Esther Garrel Victoire Du Bois Directed By: Luca Guadagnino Written By: James Ivory In Theaters: Nov 24, 2017 Limited Runtime: 130 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Classics **Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 ** Source

It's 1983 in North Italy and everyone wears a shirt and a short. Elio is a 17 year old boy who lives in a villa with his archeology professor father and translator mother. He is smart but naive in matters of the heart. He reads a lot, plays piano and flirts with girls. Going through the normal stages of coming of age, even his parents watch him closely with love as they see what their son is growing into. Source

Summer is here! And so is Oliver, an american graduate student who came to assist Elio's father in his research. He takes over Elio's room, causing him to move to the next room, but then they share the same bathroom. The local girls are smitten by his charm and good looks and Elio is vexed by his aloofness. Bike rides, long chats and swims in the river soon erupted into sexual attractions. Oliver seem not interested, probably for the fact that he is guest, 7 years older or he doesn't want to screw his professor's son. Oliver begins a romance with a girl while Elio becomes entangled with a girl his age, Marzia. It's long summer and who knows what it has in store for them, but one thing is for sure, their lives won't remain the same. Source

Call me by your name is a slow paced melodic drama. Each scene just flows like a river on to the next, though it was a little bit slow at first. Director Luca took his time to portray the intricacies of first love. It's a movie of youthful love, lust, confusion, heartbreak and exuberance told in a detailed and dynamic way. The performances are outstanding, Chalamet embraced his Elio and performed naturally as a volatile teen facing changes into adulthood. The tone setting, cinematography and direction is beautiful. What even makes it more epic is the monologue by Stulhbarg at the the end, it leaves an impression that will stick in your brain long after watching the movie.

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Genres: Drama, Romance Actor: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois, Vanda Capriolo, Antonio Rimoldi, Elena Bucci, Marco Sgrosso, André Aciman, Peter Spears, Xhuliano Ujka Director: Luca Guadagnino Country: Brazil, France, Italy, USA IMDB : 8.4 Release: 2017

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Ten-minute applause after the Sundance Film festival. Director Luka Guadanino enters a twitter and reads how after his film people are jumping and dancing on the streets. Of these types of movies, they are rare and create euphoria in some people that does not quench for months. Last year it was "American Honey". Both are spectacles for the senses-gentle guys whose vision is electrifying, the feeling they leave is more true to the truth than the one we face everyday. "Call Me by Your Name" is a film about Love, which transforms life into an event and radiates such an emotional charge, it itself is an event. 24-year-old American student Oliver (Army Hammer) is staying in a summer internship in his native Italian villa of professor of archeology, the American-Italian American-French American Professor Perlman (played by Michael Stulbarg, whose Oscar nomination for supporting male role I hope is a fact in a few months). The atmosphere in the house is a cohesive idol - Perlmani are a family of dreams - highly educated beautiful people who speak freely about philosophy, history and linguistics and kiss and hug in the corridors of their house every time they pass away. The son of Professor Elio (an impressive debut as Timothy Shalame) is a 17-year-old spiritual and talented boy: he spends his days studying classical music, reading books, riding a bicycle and going out in the evening at the bars in the town. "Call Me by Your Name" begins directly with the event-connection: Oliver's arrival. He is impressively handsome and confident, the ancient Greeks have a word about it - Calokatia: when the visual and moral beauty are in absolute synchronicity. In the first minutes of the film, he is adored by each of the heroes (except for Perlman, there are also minor characters, the most important of which is Elio's girlfriend, the Frenchman Marcia, played by Esther Garel).

What happens afterwards is magic: Ellio's love for Oliver goes through several recognizable stages, which are shown on the screen with a masterful light from the camera: it slides between the characters as if blowing in the wind. (Behind the camera is Saudi Mbudiyprom, a Thai man who also worked with Apicolapong Virasetakul over the dream-mysteriously-visually perfect "Uncle Bune, who remembers his past lives", awarded with "Golden Palm" at the Cannes 2010 festival.) In an interview director Luca Guadanino says: "We had a Buddhist behind the camera. And this is visible in every frame. " To be able to convey my thoughts in order, I will divide the text into five parts corresponding to the five states of the protagonist Elio in the three weeks until love develops between him and Oliver. It's an attempt to decipher the power of the film, which I believe is rooted in the absolutely brilliant passage through the universal emotions of love sentiment. "Call Me by Your Name" displays the inner world of a loving and the most inviting, most intense state through which his fascinated-minded soul can pass. I include several quotes from Roland Bart's "Fragments of Love Discourse," which to me is the most poetic and refined transformation of love emotion into words. Not to be interesting, but to give you pleasure (because Barth's text is that!) This film is the same rendering, more accessible, but not less subtle and moody. For at least a year, I had never seen a love story that touched me with its naturalness. One of the greatest qualities of the film is its script: it lacks antagonist and conflict. In a textbook, this scenario was not written. This is risky, some would say wrong. For example, there is no classic Romeo-Juliet problem when an external force interferes with love, nor is there a serious hesitation in any of the characters. Nobody dies. No one is poorer than the other, no one is whiter or more black than the other. We look at two people who fall in love, define heaven, and believe me, this is one of the most exciting narrative stories.

Desire

This is the third and final film of Luka Guadanino's trilogy, inspired by the common theme of Desire. The previous two are "I'm Love" and "Big Spanking". In the words of the director, the first is a tragedy, the second is a farce, the third is an ideal. While in the two previous films there is some tragic comical element, which is a warning consequence of desire, in "Call Me by Your Name" there is no such thing. Here to love does not mean anything bad. Pain after loss is not harmful. The film begins with Elio's naked to the cross, who must quickly release his room, where guest Oliver will be sleeping. The house where Elio lives is spacious, cozy (the doors are always open, and kitchen dishes are constantly being cooked) in which room to enter there are books to read under the huge windows that pass through the rich afternoon sun. Everyday life is a delightful delight. The viewer sees this and sits down in his seat, his head squeaked with longing. Why is not my life as well? "Call Me by Your Name," it manages to touch a string, often untouched in ours: the melancholy of the unspent paradise, ripe under the lasciviousness of the blessed nature, kissed from the sky hidden from the dusty, dusty city. Sexual desire is not claimed right away. The scene where Elio and Oliver first met, for example, was shot rather unconventionally for such a type of narrative. The classic version of love at first glance is to see on screen (usually in middle or close-up) the reaction of the protagonist, the one who falls in love first. Here, however, the scene is as follows: through the half-open door, Elio and Oliver are hunted. Elio is in the back, Oliver's face is a polite, tired smile. BAM! Nothing special. No escalating music or slow motion. Simple.

Anxiety

When we can not possess something, we are obsessed with a fragment of it. Once Elio is aware of love, Oliver is missing. He takes his wheel and gets lost for one day. Elio is alone in the house, returns to his room and looks at the dwelling place of the beast. This is his own room, but altered forever: he is intruded by the presence of the one who is now gone. There are one or two great frames in which the camera focuses on Oliver's wet baths, which hang from the bathroom faucets. Elio picks up a pair of them, lying on the bed and blowing his head inside. This is the only one he is capable of possessing. Only part of, and not the real, body of Oliver. This makes him nervous and frightened, but at the same time brings him incomparably with another pleasure. When is the pleasure confusing? Love is maddening: it tears you away from you and transmits you into the power of something abstract like Thought, Aroma, Imagine. Elio is lost in the Other's maze. And for the first time in the movie we hear the music of the wonderful Sufyan Stevens at a time of culminating anxiety. The stage is distinctive: Elio's face is blurred, and it's like a movie strip. Elio is not part of his own life, but a projection of the collective centuries-old image of Love: the one caught in the trap of the sticky charm. Subsequent scene: Elio is with his parents, the three are sitting on the couch, he has a head on his mother's lap. She reads from some French romance the story of the princess and the knight; the knight is so in love with the princess that he does not know what to do. The horror he feels about his own feelings escalates into the replica: "Talk or die." This shakes Elio, who realizes that the choice is really extreme. The scene marks a major dramatic situation. The lover is facing a ditch: on one side he is alone, like a boy bent with a frightened look over the abyss, a large, dignified man standing on the other side. Can he skip the ditch?

Michael Stuhlbarg

Heroism

According to Joseph Campbell, in every story in which we have a prominent protagonist there is a moment of initiation, the moment the boy, taking on some challenge, takes the path of his maturation. For Harry Potter this is his departure for the Hogwarts magical school, for example. What does Elio do to become a man? Elio decides to speak. Despite all the horror of this action - putting yourself in a weak position, risking being misunderstood and humiliating, Elio demonstrates courage and decides to confess. Courage, because confession is self-defense, and this is one of the most manly things to do: "I'm here and I feel that way. Are you like me? "As probably all the readers know this text, telling someone that you love it without knowing if it will turn your feelings is hard and painful. It can cost a lot of nerves, especially if one is bloody in the spirit of high classical ideals. And Elio spoke. God, how good this scene is. Maybe I'm more fond of even the last 10 minutes of the movie. The scene is brilliantly conceived and shot: Elio and Oliver rotate on both sides of a monument in honor of those who died in the First World War battle. They talk about history, and Oliver admired how much Elio knows. Then Elio, who gathered the courage, says he knows nothing. Not for the important ones. "What important things?" Asks Oliver. "You know who," says Elio after a thoughtful pause. He tells him everything without telling him anything. Among them is the story - the stone monument, the symbol of suffering and the epic - and the no less important event rages: The conversation.

Atonement

The fourth part of "Call Me by Your Name" shows the true relationship of the two, after love has already been declared as a fact. It feels like the longest part. It is right to be, considering that it is a romantic film that is not specified by the genre limitation of either drama or comedy. The title refers to that part. "Call Me by Your Name" is a replica that Oliver gives to Elio and which actually carries the whole charge of their relationship: the true merger is when you do not distinguish yourself from the other, being so in love, sinking in the other. This is the culminating moment: you are one with your Desire, and your Desire is one with you. There is no conflict, no drama. The world is only one long touch. The quest for a complete merger: the whole world says that this dream is impossible, yet it holds on it. I also do not let him go. "On the stars of Athens, in the place of heroisation of the dead, scenes of good-bye, where one of the husbands farewell to the other, clasped hands, as if a contract is pronounced, only a third force can destroy - so the mourning in expressing feelings . I'm no longer without you. "It's just that I imagine mourning is the proof of my dream; I can trust her because she is dead. (the only immortality impossible).

Reckoning

The last, fifth part, in which Oliver leaves, has almost an instructive function. The father is the figure of the wise, the teacher (literally and literally). He must evaluate the event and interpret its meaning. He is the person who studies the art and character of the people over the centuries, the way in which humanity declares itself. Still, he is a man who admits that he has never been so close to the perfection of human relations as his 17-year-old son. The discovery of the father is striking: In the absence of love, one gets lost. In the absence of courage to love, one fades. Again, this brilliant monologue deserves an Oscar nomination. There are movies that are magic. Do not hesitate that "Call Me by Your Name" is one of them. And to quench the swollen pathos, I will tell you that the peach scene has been tested (in living life) by both Luca and Timothy Shalame. One can enjoy the most unexpected places!