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.

Timothée Chalamet Armie Hammer Michael Stuhlbarg Amira Casar Esther Garrel Victoire Du Bois Vanda Capriolo Antonio Rimoldi Elena Bucci Marco Sgrosso André Aciman Peter Spears

Alternative Titles

Chiamami con il tuo nome, Kimi no Namae de Boku o Yonde, Spune-mi cum vrei, Zovi me svojim imenom, Poklici me po svojem imenu, Skrivena Ljubav, Зови меня своим именем, KP18: Vadink mane savo vardu, Më thirr me emrin tënd, Llámame por tu nombre

drama romance

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Review by BRAT ★★★★★ 44

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 ★★★★★ 21

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 ★★★★★ 37

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 ★★★★★ 23

“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 76

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🌹 ★★★★★ 36

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 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 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 Tasha Robinson ★★½ 85

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 166

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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 davidehrlich ★★★★½ 28

“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 Mark ★★★★½ 6

So strange that life goes on after finishing a film like Call Me By Your Name.

Recent reviews

Review by emmaabbott ★★★★★

Did I cry? 100%
Review by Arthur ★★★½

My first LGBT movie. Great perfomances, beautiful cinemathography, pacing a little slow and the story doesn’t satisfy me.
Obs: Timothée Chalamet is a very good actor. He has a good Carter ahead him.
Review by addie ★★★

this was just a trip to the art museum, like it was really pretty visually but lacking the substance and meaning i was looking for.
Review by s <3 ★★★★★

OK SOME POINTS
- ARMIE HAMMER IS GROSS BUT THIS FILM IS TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THAT TO CHANGE MY RATING IM SORRY
- THE DANCE SCENE??? psychedelic furs so true
- EVERY FUCKING SCENE WITH SUFJAN STEVENS’ MUSIC PLAYING IS SO BEAUTIFUL
- the dad’s monologue??? i don’t even have the words to describe it
- the last scene with elio staring into the fireplace always makes me bawl my eyes out no matter how many times i watch it
the age gap and armie hammer aside, i think this film is what i would call perfect
sorry this is all over the place lmao i usually just use a quote from the film but for this one i felt the need to actually try and describe how i felt even though i failed miserably
Review by hana ★★★★★

was a comfort movie until armie hammer turned out to be a cannibal 😕😕😕😕such a tasteful movie and book
Review by dyl3n ★★★★½

First movie I’ve cried during in a while
Review by jana ★★★★½

🤝
Review by barbara_n ★★★★

gatilho
Review by gracecapps ★★★★

This movie made me deeply sad for a few days. Ending was eh
Review by Ash ★★★★★

Happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈
There isn’t much for me to say that hasn’t been said before. My third viewing and it’s just as good as it was the first time round. I CANNOT wait to visit Italy one day.
Review by leafhouseee ★★★½

something about that horny 4am skylight
Review by gracemullin ★★★★

this film never fails to not make me cry. armie hammer is a freak tho. stan timothee chalamet