{"id":7149,"date":"2025-08-01T02:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:36:02","slug":"call-me-by-your-name-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=7149","title":{"rendered":"Call Me By Your Name-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call Me By Your Name-2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Luca Guadagnino<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Armie Hammer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Top 250 Films #118<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #708<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed December 27, 2017<\/p>\n

Grade: A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Call Me by Your Name (2017) is a gorgeous film. It is simply beautiful in storytelling, cinematography, and acting.<\/p>\n

A humanistic film that crafts a lovely tale of young love, friendship, and emotions, which is breathtaking to experience.<\/p>\n

In fact, in the LGBT category, I would venture to proclaim that this film is groundbreaking. It leaves behind any tried-and-true homophobic elements and instead tells a good story that is fresh, sincere, and simply flawless.<\/p>\n

The period is the summer of 1983, and the landscape is the beautiful Italian Riviera.<\/p>\n

Seventeen-year-old Italian-American Elio (Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet) dreams of spending the summer away, living with his affluent parents in a small village. His world is rich with culture and learning\u2014his father (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a professor, and his mother is a translator.<\/p>\n

A brilliant student, Elio wiles away the days reading, playing music, and flirting with his girlfriend, Marzia.<\/p>\n

When a handsome twenty-four-year-old American student, Oliver (Armie Hammer), arrives for a six-week stay to assist Elio’s father on a project, desire and first love blossom between the young men as they struggle with their burgeoning relationship.<\/p>\n

Directed by Luca Guadagnino, who has also directed the lovely 2009 film, I Am Love, is a man known for stories of desire in small Italian villages.<\/p>\n

Call Me By Your Name is the third in a trilogy, I Am Love and 2015’s A Bigger Splash being the others.<\/p>\n

The setting is crucial to the story, as both the summer heat and the world of the intellectual scholars are nestled into a grand shell of culture. The philosophical nature of the story is palpable\u2014the film exudes intelligence and sophistication.<\/p>\n

By 2017, the LGBT genre had become populated with films in the romantic, drama, and comedy sub-genres, but many use the standard homophobic slant to elicit drama and conflict.<\/p>\n

Not to diminish the importance of homophobic discussions to teach viewers, Call Me By Your Name stands alone in that homophobia is not an issue in this story.<\/p>\n

Given the time of 1983, this may be surprising\u2014at the very cusp of the AIDS epidemic, this topic is also not discussed; rather, the subject matter is simply a love story between two males and the coming-of-age story that their love expresses.<\/p>\n

The film is quite moving; Elio and Oliver are characters filled with texture and raw emotion. Oliver is confident, charismatic, and a great catch for any lucky young lady in the village.<\/p>\n

Hammer fills the role with poise and humanity.<\/p>\n

Chalamet, a beautiful young man, gives the complex role his all, as so much can be conveyed not by dialogue, but by expressions on the actor’s face.<\/p>\n

As Oliver slow dances with a local girl, the wounded look that Chalamet reveals, his eyes welling up with tears, is heartbreaking. Seventeen is a tough age for most young men, but when coming to terms with one’s sexuality, it can be excruciating.<\/p>\n

The final scene is poignant, as it features a five-minute-long sequence of gazing into Chalamet’s eyes, during which many emotions are expressed.<\/p>\n

Enough credit cannot be given to Stuhlbarg as Elio’s father, as he gave one of the best speeches ever performed in film history. The actor gives a subtle and poignant performance as the sympathetic and knowing father.<\/p>\n

His speech, marked by understanding and warmth, is riveting and inspirational\u2014to be cherished. Mr. Perlman is a role model to fathers everywhere and the ideal parent for any gay son.<\/p>\n

One scene that could stir controversy is the sure-to-be-controversial “peach scene”. Involving an innocent peach used during a sex act, the scene is erotic and borders on “icky”, but is also vital to foster the connection between Oliver and Elio.<\/p>\n

Another potential risk to the film is that Oliver is twenty-four, while Elio is seventeen, making Elio underage. However, the film never portrays Oliver as more of an aggressor, and the relationship remains tender and consensual.<\/p>\n

Call Me By Your Name (2017) is not just a great LGBT film but a film for the ages.\u00a0 Beautifully crafted with gorgeous landscapes and nuanced, powerful acting, the sequences are subtle and carefully paced.<\/p>\n

The film is simply a treasure.<\/p>\n

Oscar Nominations: 1 win-<\/strong>Best Picture, Best Actor-Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Best Adapted Screenplay (won)<\/strong>, Best Original Song-“Mystery of Love”<\/p>\n

Independent Spirit Award Nominations: 2 wins-<\/strong>Best Feature, Best Director-Luca Guadagnino, Best Male Lead-Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet (won)<\/strong>, Best Supporting Male-Armie Hammer, Best Cinematography (won)<\/strong>, Best Editing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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