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

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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 syrip ★★★★

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Review by Eirian ½

i give this .5 stars merely for the soundtrack. lets start with the "plot." just kidding there is absolutely NO PLOT. one could say, "oh its the summertime italian villa vibes i love this movie so much its a love story." do you know what else is a love story? every d*sney movie. 10 things i hate about you. If i stay. tfios. all of these movies actually have plot and character development which this movie does not whatsoever.
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Review by killerphy ★★★½

namoro???? foi só um belisco! agora vaza, VAZA
Review by miaoldham ★★★★★

right i have very conflicting opinions and i am genuinely open for a debate on this.
i adore this film, it's one of my favourites, made me cry for an hour after. it's obviously beautiful cinematography and very gentle pacing.
my question is - does every film featuring LGBT characters/ relationships have to be perfect/ unproblematic? I'm absolutely not denying that the age gap in the relationship is wrong. but everyone who rates this movie a very low score is always off the basis that this is poor representation of a gay relationship.
but, is that even the intention of the film - to be good representation? is there no space to explore difficult and complex gay relationships or do we have to tread on eggshells?
Review by Angela ★★★★★

theres something about this movie that always feels so right, its normal its casual and thats what sells it and in some way makes it feel so fairytale like
Review by sam kyker ★★★★½ 3

Writing about Call Me By Your Name is almost an impossible task, and not just because of the tidal wave of various emotions, nameless feelings, and mystic thoughts that rush over you after the credits have rolled. It's impossible because the film itself is about processing individual pathos, rather than helplessly and hopelessly trying to unscramble it aloud. I have so much more I could say, but I think I’ll take a note from Guadagnino and leave it at that.
Review by jade trika ★★★★½

oh to see without my eyes... T-T vibe
Review by Lucas Gröning ★★★★½

Es wird wieder romantisch! In unserer fünften Podcastfolge widmen wir uns CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017), dem ersten großen Wurf von Regisseur Luca Guadagnino, welcher, neben etlichen Nominierungen, einen Oscar in der Kategorie "Bestes adaptiertes Drehbuch" erhielt. Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß zwischen antiker griechischer Kultur, Aprikosen und dem paradiesischen Italien der 1980er-Jahre!
Hier unsere Besprechung zu Luca Guadagninos Liebesfilm im Rahmen des Filmpodcasts LuCast:
—> Podigee
—> Spotify
—> Apple Podcasts
—> Deezer
Review by 2Dgirls ★★★★★

While quite different from the book it was very enjoyable. The movie ends in a way where you’re left distraught from the separation of two lovers you saw grow more and more in love every day. A happier ending compared to that of the book lol. Every scene had a purpose. There is no external conflict that many gay romance movies or series tend to have but there is a clear thread of internal conflicts- in particular with Oliver. Visual metaphors are abound all throughout the movie. There is a sort of nebulous environmental sense of both homosexual shame and personal shame that shape Elio and Oliver’s actions and dialogue. You can see this as a Oliver frequently mentions wanting…
Review by miahaf ★★★★★

beautiful. thats all i can really say.
Review by chequin ★★★★½

No apta para duraznos.