Call Me by Your Name

2017 Directed by Luca Guadagnino

Is it better to speak or die?

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.

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

Alternative Titles

Llámame por tu nombre, Призови ме с твоето име, Me Chame Pelo Seu Nome, Appelle-moi par ton nom, შენი სახელით მომმართე, Να με φωνάζεις με τ' όνομά σου, Skrivena Ljubav, Szólíts a neveden, Chiamami con il tuo nome, Kimi no Namae de Boku o Yonde, 콜 미 바이 유어 네임, KP18: Vadink mane savo vardu, Tamte dni, tamte noce, Chama-me Pelo Teu Nome, Spune-mi cum vrei, Zovi me svojim imenom, Зови меня своим именем, Poklici me po svojem imenu, 以你的名字呼喚我

drama romance

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Review by brat pitt ★★★★★ 34

these two bisexuals that look like they just stumbled out of their first vampire weekend concert really had the nerve to make me lay on my floor & cry while listening to sufjan stevens huh
Review by iana ★★★★★ 16

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elio: *puts oliver’s shorts over his head*
my mum: wait is he gay
Review by brat pitt ★★★★★ 27

one of my cinematic pet peeves is when a character's reaction to a nosebleed is to tilt their heads back instead of forward. speaking as a frequent nose-bleeder, NO!!!! do NOT do that!!!! that's how you swallow blood clots, you AMATEURS. you nosebleed DILETTANTES.
what i'm getting at is this: when elio's nose starts bleeding and he leans forward ...... BRILLIANT! exactly what you're supposed to do! and there's even an added bonus of his going to find ice to constrict the blood vessels. they didn't need to add that but they did. i'm endlessly appreciative of instructional scenes such as this one, as they help to offset all the grossly inaccurate nosebleed depictions we've been inundated with. thank you luca guadagnino for your public health service
Review by katie ★★★★★ 25

“I remember everything.”
I remember everything. I couldn’t put this film into words if I tried. I couldn’t ever review this, or even explain how personal this felt to me. Every kiss, every movement, every laugh, every dance, every look, goodbye, embrace. If I could, I couldn’t even begin.
“I remember everything.”
Review by Lucy ★★½ 60

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best picture showcase: film #7
it just doesn’t click. a gorgeous facade, masking the vagueness of the dialogue and intentions and feelings of the characters. dripping with scenic appeal, but i’m only slightly charmed by it. what tries to be one of the most sincere movies in years only feels hollow to me, even when i try to let it in. oliver and elio are different ages, but it’s the maturity level that bothers me here: one, a man, going out by himself until dawn. the other, only a boy, sitting with his parents, being read a fairlytale while it rains outside. he puffs out his chest and acts older than his age. and that’s what it is: an act.…
Review by andrea🌹 ★★★★★ 33

me: hey i think im getting over cmbyn?
cmbyn: [walks over to my bedroom door then proceeds to give me a blow job] well that's promising. you're hard again. good [closes the door]
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★★★ 8

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“Timothée Chalamet had an earpiece playing Sufjan Stevens' song "Visions of Gideon" whilst filming the final scene (which plays through the credits) to properly understand and convey Elio's heartbreak.”
[divya narendra voice] WOW
Review by katie ★★★★★ 23

I don’t think there’s anything more beautiful, real, or brutal than the way Elio repeats, “Because I wanted you to know.”
Because I wanted you to know.
Loving someone is hard, whether it’s the butterflies you get in the beginning or the weight of the world you feel towards the end. I’ve realized through my relationship that love doesn’t make sense, and with my now 9 viewings of this film, that this movie doesn’t make sense to me either. I truly don’t understand, I could never understand, how Luca, Ivory, and the cast pulled this off. The feeling of love is so hard to replicate because everyone experiences it differently, but there’s something so universal about the looks Elio’s parents…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 29

“Is it better to speak or to die?” That’s the core question of “Call Me By Your Name,” which surfaces in a scene where a character reads the words of Marguerite of Navarre in “The Heptaméron,” but it’s an idea at the heart of all queer narratives. It’s been especially present in queer cinema, where muteness and survival are often the most bittersweet bedfellows. But “Call Me By Your Name” not only quotes Marguerite’s words, it suffuses them into every fiber of its being. It’s a great film because of how lucidly it poses her question, and an essential one because of how courageously it answers it.
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Review by Tasha Robinson ★★½ 73

Sign me up as the apostate that just doesn't appreciate this one, that doesn't really understand why a long, rambling, sleepy movie about a disconnected, disaffected, insanely rich and privileged teenager moping around until he gets laid is so moving to people. There are better romances, better gay coming-of-age movies, better summer-fling stories, and movies where I don't get really really distracted by watching a dude gut a peach in his bed with his bare hands and then fuck it, making an immense mess for someone else to clean up. I will fight the world on this one.
Review by Sally Jane Black 198

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cw: abuse, violation of consent
This year's token queer representation at awards season returns to the fertile grounds Moonlight broke free of: mixing watered-down queerness with predatory stereotypes.
There's a way to tell this story without delving into this kind of relationship. What this film wants to be is bittersweet. What this film wants to be is quiet, contemplative, achingly beautiful, the feeling of a crush requited, the feeling of discovery and awakening. And you can see that it achieves this with significant portions of its audience, but to engage with that you have to ignore some glaring red flags.
The film goes out of its way to tell us some things: Elio is 17. Elio is a virgin. Elio…
Review by mulaney 24

@RealJamesWoods Didn't you date a 19 year old when you were 60.......?

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Review by matheus ★★★★★

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É MELHOR FALAR OU MORRER?
Mais uma vez chorando por call me by your name. mais ou menos 1 ano atrás eu estava chorando com o fim do livro, e agora depois de muito enrolar, criei coragem, mas eu sabia que ia doer... não só o final, o jeito como pensei que o Oliver olhava para o Élio com um olhar de indiferença pesava em mim, assim como o modo que o Élio levava as coisas com toda a imaturidade doía em mim, e a relação deles poderia ter sido delicada e prejudicada por vários motivos diferentes como homofobia ou a diferença de idade, mas não... desde o começo já estava fadada a não ter futuro algum porque simplesmente era…
Review by Angelo Abante ★★★★

Italy. Heartbreak. Sufjan Stevens.
Review by Eugene Rocco Utley ★★★★★

The amount of math and Italian Law I had to research in order to decide if I was allowed to ship them or not has transformed me into a European Scholar.
Sì, ho pianto per un film in cui Timothée Chalamet scopa una pesca 🇮🇹🇮🇹
Review by RJ ★★★★★

Nicole makes fun of me for saying this movie gives me gay tears :)
Review by Ben Morris

First time in probably two years I’ve seen this movie. I didn’t love Timothée’s performance as much this time, but Michael Stuhlbarg’s really popped. This film will always be special because it’s the one that got me hooked. It’s not my number one anymore but it’s still somewhere in my top ten.
Review by bry2nt ★★★★★

YESSSSSS!! I watched this and I was like “omg same” but not really bc I’ve never been romantically involved with another person but like this movie was totes me. Also Armie Hammer is WAAY more attractive then Timothy Chandelier, y’all be sleepin on my mans!! 😭😭😭
Review by simply radishes ★★★★★

Dreamlike. Love is love. It’s like a summer breeze that flows through your hair.
In the final shot, Timothée’s quick glance into the camera, at us, made my heart sink. His eyes tell the whole story. The joy of loving and the pain of letting go.
Brilliant. One of the best movies I’ve ever seen that stands on its own while staying true to the themes of its source material.
Review by juanamourin ★★★★★

captures magic
and breaks your heart
Review by ryanparnell ★★★★

Honestly, for the majority of this movie, I felt like the film had fallen short of my expectations. The atmosphere matched my imagination, as my mind fell into the tranquility of an idyllic Italian summer, and I found myself losing track of the days within the loose editing and beautiful score. However, for most of the plot, the emotional force felt restrained, blunted by the serendipity of this perfect romance. Looking back, I may have just been trapped in the immature emotions of Elio. However, when Oliver's train pulls away, and the Italian summer loses its romantic allure, and reality sets back in. The most beautiful part of this movie is not found in the love affair, but the words…
Review by ☁️ Louis ☁️ ★★★★★

I just think Elio’s mother is a really interesting character and I think perhaps I will model my day-to-day life on hers
Review by messyjessy ★★★★★

i cri
Review by lilybigwilly ★

overrated. i read the book a couple years ago before the film and couldn’t even get through that without force. my eyeballs hurt from having to keep reading it. if timothee chalamet wasn’t in it, bitchez wouldn’t love this film nearly enough. also ✨ pedophilia ✨