Call Me By Your Name

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It's the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17– year-old American-Italian, spends his days in his family's 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel).

Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio's sophis­tication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart.

Critic Reviews:

• " Chalamet's per­formance is magnificent – this is the sort of performance that stretches across a lifetime. This is “Hey look we have our own James Dean now” level good stuff here " – Jason Adams

• " The blossoming romance between these two men, that unfurls over six sun-dappled weeks in northern Italy, is utterly ravishing. " – Yasmin Omar

• " What the film does with that, thanks to the performance by 2017 all-star Michael Stuhlbarg, is surprising and life-affirming. " – Ian Brill