Call Me by Your Name

Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: November 24, 2017

7.9	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 1188 Ratings

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SuperMax156Dec 13, 2017

A film about pederasty which romanticises the act of grooming a young boy for pedophilia. Hollywood, the home of rape and molestation is a class act. Avoid at all costs.

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DelingarDec 12, 2017

My heart was aching through most of it...aching for the longing the protagonist experienced, aching for the pain of the mixed signals between he and Oliver, aching for the anticipation for what he hoped might happen, aching for how thingsMy heart was aching through most of it...aching for the longing the protagonist experienced, aching for the pain of the mixed signals between he and Oliver, aching for the anticipation for what he hoped might happen, aching for how things might all end up. Meanwhile, the cinematography literally had me crying that I never had the great fortune to grown up in such a beautiful, idyllic environment. The amazing Michael Stuhlbarg almost managed to steal the whole movie in a late scene, and had me again wiping away joyful tears. I'm currently relishing the audiobook version (narrated by Armie Hammer) and toying with the idea of seeing the movie a second time before it leaves theaters.… Expand

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RayFundoraDec 12, 2017

I left this movie with a knot in my stomach and a lump in my throat. It’s simply stunning. The acting, directing, music, it all just works. I left the theater feeling haunted. I will not post any spoilers, but bring tissues.

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StevieGJDDec 1, 2017

This is a lovely film. It is filled with intelligent, cultured and good looking people. The Italian town, countryside and villa where the majority of the film take place could not be more inviting. The blossoming of the relationship isThis is a lovely film. It is filled with intelligent, cultured and good looking people. The Italian town, countryside and villa where the majority of the film take place could not be more inviting. The blossoming of the relationship is both romantic and understandable. The acting is excellent, as are the art direction and cinematography. The final scene upon which the credits are layered, is incredibly moving. All but the truly homophobic will find something to love about this beautiful, tender film. My only complaint is not really a complaint, it is just a sad fact: the world in which these characters reside does not exist. It would be lovely if it did. But, alas it does not. It is a kind of fantasy place where everyone is understanding, accepting and kind, nobody is judgmental and bigotry does not exist. This is a very good, but not amazing, film.… Expand

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MooseSpoonDec 4, 2017

It's an introduction to normalizing pedophilia. While the movie isn't terrible, it doesn't change the fact it's about an underaged boy. If it was about an underaged girl and an older man, people would flip out.

23 of 111 users found this helpful2388

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wabbieDec 4, 2017

There is no doubt everyone has a story that mirrors the one shown in this movie. For it to be done with such great actors, a gifted director and with such lovely scenery makes this a once in a lifetime film. The movie follows the book quiteThere is no doubt everyone has a story that mirrors the one shown in this movie. For it to be done with such great actors, a gifted director and with such lovely scenery makes this a once in a lifetime film. The movie follows the book quite closely. Timothee Chalamet is perfection. Stole my heart. Sufjan Stevens songs fit perfectly as well. The final scene over the credits is magic.… Expand

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LamontRaymondNov 27, 2017

At first, the film felt a bit like a modern version of Blame it on Rio, with the older guy, living with the under-aged kid on vacation, hooks up with him in the paradise setting. Unlike Blame it on Rio, this hook-up is fully endorsed by theAt first, the film felt a bit like a modern version of Blame it on Rio, with the older guy, living with the under-aged kid on vacation, hooks up with him in the paradise setting. Unlike Blame it on Rio, this hook-up is fully endorsed by the kid's parents, and it, therefore, obviously, doesn't have the same taboo feel to it. It also lacks Rio's sense of humor. The critical drawback of this film is how timid it is with respect to the gay sex scenes. I mean, they show SO MUCH MORE of the kid hooking up with the local girl, yet when he hooks up with his older male lover, they pan away. The director of this film should look to Greg Araki or the makers of Queer as Folk to see how it's done tastefully. What saves the film is the brilliant conversation between father and son, reflecting on what the son had in this particular relationship. A model for parents of gay children, I would guess.… Expand

6 of 8 users found this helpful62

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MattBrady99Nov 27, 2017

LIFF31 2017 #2

"Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot." There is no doubt how incredibly beautiful "Call Me By Your Name" is. Putting aside your age and sexuality, the film offers more than romance. It's not sad or tragic, butLIFF31 2017 #2

"Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot."

There is no doubt how incredibly beautiful "Call Me By Your Name" is. Putting aside your age and sexuality, the film offers more than romance. It's not sad or tragic, but a peaceful one. It's all about falling in love. What's been said by many will be repeated here, so none of this is gonna be new to you, because it's all true.

Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, and newcomer Timothée Chalamet all deliver terrific performances. Not a weak or unconvincing actor in sight. All of them were perfectly cast in the roles and there was no shred of doubt during the emotional parts. Especially Stuhlbarg monologue towards the end is as moving as anything I have ever seen.

The way Luca Guadagnino manages to play on your emotions and present gay romances is really mesmerizing. The warm and summer spectacle of Italy makes you want to be there. With the scenery, sunny waters, and the food which look so good, all through Sayombhu Mukdeeprom brilliant cinematography. It's paradise.

Even the sexual tension never once came across pornographic. I don't mind sex or nudity in movies and people seriously just need to stop being so sensitive about it. Ever thought that making little things a huge deal only makes it a huger deal. Or your sloppy description.

The sexuality in this film is more of an emotional connection you personally experience through the characters. And you don't have to be gay to enjoy those scenes. It avoids the typical tropes you find in movies that isn't as perfectly presented as this.

This is a truly special movie that I easily got lost in.… Expand

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gerry6992Nov 25, 2017

Call Me by Your Name is an heartfelt and beautiful love story. Luca Guadagnino is an incredibly talented director (Italians are the best :) ). I really loved Sufjan Stevens songs as well and the closing credits' scene is really powerful. ThisCall Me by Your Name is an heartfelt and beautiful love story. Luca Guadagnino is an incredibly talented director (Italians are the best :) ). I really loved Sufjan Stevens songs as well and the closing credits' scene is really powerful. This story feels real and authentic. I would have loved just a little bit more of nudity. It was a bit too chaste… Expand

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TheDavoNov 25, 2017

This movie is good but it's not 95 good as the aggregate score of the critics has it now as I write this review. Saw it at a film fest and it wasn't even the best film I saw there. In the bottom 3rd of the films I saw.

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AndyThomasNov 24, 2017

Luca Guadagnino's latest is beautiful to watch -a motion Caravaggio painting, and marvelous to ponder -a moving rumination on the bated joy of first love.

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CharlieGrayNov 24, 2017

Incredible and beautifully crafted film, it’s sensual without the need of being vulgar, and it’s so romantic and beautiful. Both Timothée and Armie did amazing jobs

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hepwaNov 24, 2017

Where do I begin? The novel grabbed my heart in January and by July I was touring Italy, reading passages on the beach in the town where its set, strolling through the side street in Rome where Oliver and Elio share their final nightWhere do I begin? The novel grabbed my heart in January and by July I was touring Italy, reading passages on the beach in the town where its set, strolling through the side street in Rome where Oliver and Elio share their final night together. It is the gay romance of my lifetime, having grown up in the era of its setting, asking the same questions of myself that Elio does (only failing the question, "Is it better to speak or to die?"). Elio doesn't fail - he speaks and it changes his life, for better or worse. The movie captures that turning point in his young adulthood and brings it to glorious life, replete with the inevitable pain. Hopefully without spoiling anything, the fire that is lit within him will burn for a lifetime and into the viewer's heart during a crushing final scene that glances over every possible emotion but ending on determination and hope. For the love of God, don't leave this movie when the credits start to roll. And be a good movie citizen and let everyone you know who will be seeing it to do the same. Guadanigno, the director, is painterly but nothing without the astonishing performances, especially from Timothee Chalamet who brings Elio to life in a way I haven't seen a young actor do since Timothy Hutton broke through in "Ordinary People" almost forty years ago. Armie Hammer crosses the Rubicon with his performance as Oliver, becoming the master of his creative domain and I can't wait to see what he does in the future. Stuhlbarg as Elio's father is kind, compassionate, clear-eyed and so very wise and his final talk with his son is almost Shakespearean in word and delivery. While the words are never spoken, his monologue is the paternal 'to be or not to be' that every gay kid would cherish and every straight kid needs to hear. The women are all highly memorable and its a shame that they're a bit lost in the shuffle with the acclaim for the film (that none of them are American actors might play a part). Call Me By Your Name is a work of cinematic art, the kind that is rarely given and even more rarely appreciated. But it exists and thanks to its creators, from page to screen, I feel like a wiser, less cynical person. When is the last time a movie had that sort of effect. 10/10… Expand

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pauloandradeNov 24, 2017

What a great film. Definitely the best of 2017 so far. The script is superb, the directing is on point and the cast was just flawless. Timothée Chalamet specially did a great job here. I really feel like rewatching it, to be honest.

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MichaelObeNov 24, 2017

Italy, 1983. To the villa of Professor Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg), the father of 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet), arrives assistant Oliver (Armie Hammer) for the summer. Everyone loves him: from the maid Mafalda to local beauties. ButItaly, 1983. To the villa of Professor Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg), the father of 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet), arrives assistant Oliver (Armie Hammer) for the summer. Everyone loves him: from the maid Mafalda to local beauties. But most of all he is sympathetic to the young Elio, who can not fully determine his feelings for the guest. Italian director Luca Guadagnino presents the adaptation of the novel by André Asiman about the first love and its complexities.

"Call me by your name" - like a long-awaited trip to a country house from a noisy megapolis. Here, the silence of a summer day is broken only by the call for lunch or a horn of a bicycle. Peaches are ripening on branches, pending until they are ripped off. The pool is always filled with water and waits for someone. Here you go out for breakfast, when everyone has already had lunch. And the nights are as hot as everyday life: discos, walking with friends, swimming in the lakes. And in this idyll he invades, americano, riotous and bright, like a wind on a rocky cliff, bringing confusion to Elio's plans for the summer. Oliver introduces the professor's son to new feelings and experiences, which are unknown to him. But Guadagnino does not go into tragedy, he adapts Asiman's novel brightly and sometimes funny. The filmmaker took the best of Asiman's novel and smoothed out the rough erotic edges, so the scenes of the intimate closeness of the characters were shot as decently as possible, and even the episode with peach can not be called very vulgar. Guadagnino removed from the adaptation the girl Vimini, who was sick with leukemia, he decided to concentrate on the feelings of the main characters, and not on the secondary lines. But also the director deliberately excluded Elio and Oliver's meeting 15 years later, so as not to turn the film into a complete statement, but leave a feeling of understatement, as well as between the characters themselves.

During one of the dinners at the villa, one of the Perlman's guest says the phrase: "Cinema is not a reflection of reality, but a filter for it." That Asiman in the novel and Guadagnino in the film created a partly fabulous story of the first love with its difficulties and delights. "Call me by your name" - a coming of age drama (magical in its atmosphere), a movie about growing up through the first experience and about what it means to be alive and free.… Expand

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