In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father’s research assistant.
Director:
Luca Guadagnino Writers:
James Ivory (screenplay by), Andr Aciman (based on the novel by) Stars:
Armie Hammer, Timothe Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg | 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 Andr Aciman. It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothe Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old young man, 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. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American college graduate student working on