Call Me by Your Name [Blu-ray] [Region B] [2017]

This is one of the best films I have seen in ages, and one of the only movies in years to stay with me days, if not weeks after the viewing.This sensual and alluring film was adapted for the big screen by James Ivory, from a novel by Andre Aciman, immediately giving the piece a depth of understanding, that a screenwriter of his calibre brings to any project he's involved in. However, it is Luca Guadagnino's script and deftness of touch as a director, that stays with you.For so long I have been watching big budget CGI studio movies, and while I have enjoyed them for what they are, it is so refreshing to go back to basics and be reminded of what makes cinema great. For me that is what this film did. I am sure that this is will be referenced for many years to come, and represents a masterclass in it's genre.Sometimes directors make films throughout their career that hint at their talent but they never quite reach their peak, so many variables dictatate this. It so often not about ability directorial wise, or about the performances of those involved in any particular project, but an overall coming together of so many things, that make up what eventually becomes the finished product.Happily here we find that a perfect conbination of an amazing script, beautiful locations, lovely acoustics, an incredible cast, combined with stunning cinematography, which I am sure will stay in the minds of all who see it, for many years to come.The characterisations of all the cast are so realistic you cannot help but be drawn in by the heartfelt and moving roles that particularly the two leads playing Elio and Oliver provide.The PlotElio Perlman is a seventeen year boy staying in Crema at his parents villa as he does every summer, where his father Mr Perlman welcomes a research fellow for 6 weeks every year to join them. This is how Oliver the object of the young mans affections appears in Elio's life and for the teenager it is love at first sight. However we as an audience watch this attraction between them evolve at first slowly with little hints, until it totally takes them over and they are totally unable to resist the feelings they have for each other and it is obvious they have fallen madly in love.What makes this so compelling is the way the two main protagonists are able to convey the depth of feeling Elio and Oliver have for one another, it is the little touches that made this so special. For example there is a scene where Elio has a nose bleed and Oliver rushes to see if he is ok. Although there is alot of physical contact it is in a non sexual way. Luca Guadagnino allows it to be just intimate enough to show how much these two people care about each other, but restrained enough to show how unsure the two men are about where this is going and what is at stake.I can't stress how brilliant the actors Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer are in their interpretation of the script, because in different hands this may have been less so.In Timothee's case his Elio is the centre of attention as the camera follows him as he grows in his awareness of his sexuality and the need to express it. This incredible actor portrays the part with so little self conciousness it is hard to distinguish him from his on screen counter part. He brings so much realism to his onscreen alterego it will be impossible not to have a lump in your throat at the end of all of it.For anyone who has seen the film or read the book they will already know that there are several scenes likely to go down in film folklore such as one involving a peach and the other regards the conversation that takes place between Elio and his dad that is one of the most profound and moving I have witnessed on screen, and worth the admission price alone.However, personally speaking, and without spoiling the ending for anyone, it is the closing four minutes of the credit roll that made me buy this on dvd, and have I watched it at least 6 times now as a stand alone moment.Timothee Chalamet's wordless Elio convey's so much to the audience literally through his sheer intelligence and understanding of his character, along with the atmospheric track evocatively sung by Surfan Stevens created especially for the moment that has systematically reduced many a viewer to tears. Boy, does this actor know how to use the intimacy, created by acting to a unmanned camera, to good effect. I understand he was also listening to the track while being filmed, which ultimately produces one of the most watchable and memorable moments in modern cinema.Just beyond any expectation I could have had. Pure loveliness and, also a very persuasive advert for the stunning beauty that is Italy itself.I didn't see this when it initially came out, and didn't really take any notice of it until the Oscar hype, so my only regret is not seeing this on a bigger screen.

Call Me By Your Name was nominated for 261 film awards and won 107 film awards, making it the most accoladed LGBT film in the history of gay cinema. Timothee Chalamet delivers a powerfully affecting performance as the enigmatic Elio, a teenager who seems wise beyond his years, but is immature and inexperienced when it comes to sexual relationships, drifting back and fourth between Oliver and Maria played by Armie Hammer and Esther Garrel. Armie Hammer, a famously suave American in another star making performance seems to be channeling the actor Jeff Goldblum. The story takes place at a Italian mansion or villa in the year 1983, the start of a new exciting decade. Strong performances from supporting actors Michael Stuhlbarg and Amira Casar who play Elio's parents, 2 characters who are intelligent enough to know what's going on between Elio and Oliver and encourage it because it's what there son desires. Luca Gaudagnino directs the film beautifully. Watching Call Me By Your Name is like watching a dream, a gay dream, which if you wake up from you immediately want to get back to sleep and start dreaming about again and find out what else happens. Good music is always effective in a film and Call Me By Your Name certainly has plenty of that to help the story along. James Ivory who won a Oscar for best adapted screenplay says if he had directed the film he would have made it more sexually explicit like the novel, I wonder what he had in mind? But then Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet wouldn't have acted in the film if it involved full frontal nudity. What would the film have been like if James Ivory had directed it? Better? Worse? Who knows. I would place Call Me By Your Name in my top 10 list of greatest gay movies ever, along with Death In Venice, Parting Glances, Maurice, Beautiful Thing, Brokeback Mountain, Weekend, Free Fall, Stranger By The Lake and God's Own Country. Dvd comes with director and cast interviews, film commentary by Timothee Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg and a trailer.

I already saw the movie, which I thought was wonderful, but I was interested in Stulbarg and Chalamet's commentary on the film, which you can turn on in the extras menu. They illuminated on what they did, and the background tidbits on what happened in the scenes, above all how they found the people of Crema and the actors who played staff in Prof Perlman's house, which made the whole thing richer for it. Littlle bits of info like the waterfall scene, and where the locations of the scenes especially the long take of them riding their bikes down a long winding road into the distance as being next to some trash compactor was fun to know as it doesn't show in the frame. The winter scene also was filmed in the summer, so, their commentary about the lighting showed how much the cameraman's eye for light creating the mood for the scenes. Also the part of the film where Elio was sat outside and how the film colouring had gotten spoiled but it added to the look and feel at that moment in the film, a happy marriage of accident and serendipity that made it to the cut. Throughout the film, music in snippets, added to the overall feel, and it's a film that does take you back to a certain time when your summers were bright and sunny, and packed with friends and more. Having watched the film, I've decided to read the book, and it has Elio, who is clearly an adult recalling that summer of his past, making it quite different to the film which was adapted to retel the tale in present of 1983. I give this film five stars not only for the acting and storyline, but for the glorious cinematic feel of the colours and vibrancy of the Italian countryside, the music that permeates the film and the tidbits of trivia in Stuhlbarg and Chalamet's commentary.

Stunning visually, but lacking a powerful script, and responsibility for that must surely go to the director. Dialogue mostly one liners, with only one decent speech, given by the dad. This makes it hard to engage and empathise with the characters who are given so little to say, with one-dimensional interaction between them, and so it's hard to believe Elio's sudden transition from disdain for Oliver, to being head over heels for him. Chalamet as Elio does a convincing job with the little that has been given to him to say, especially towards the end, when Oliver marries a woman. All the actors are strong, and one could only wish for a better storyline. The central controlling idea, "Call me by your name, and I'll call you by mine", is thrown away by being delivered too fast, almost flippantly, when to my mind, it is the most powerful statement in the entire movie.The film has rated 7.9 on IMDb, and I wonder how it managed that, given the problems as I have outlined them. It's definitely a must-have for any collector of LGBT+ movies, and at least nobody dies and nobody is thrown of home, but I think we've a way to go yet before an epic movie hits our screens. Sadly, this is not it.

It's been a long time since I've seen a film so well crafted that it sticks in your mind and likely will in your memories too. There is something about a film where the silences tell you more than if it were constant dialogue or sounds. The way the script uses less dialogue was a strong point - the scriptwriter assumes the viewer has a brain instead of trying to explain everything. Sublime and beautiful; heartbreaking.

For a change the actors were not in the pretty boy/fantastic body mould, thank goodness. The skinny undeveloped body of Elio and the bigger built older Oliver perfectly contrasted and made the proceedings more realistic, they looked and acted like real people. The gentle speed of the picture, the use of a single lens camera and the fact it was shot more or less in sequence allowed the intimacy between all the characters to grow. Several things make this film quirky and at the same time memorable. The kissing is totally erotic, the sex is amazing because you don't see it, a few naked limbs and a strong imagination. Finally the peach scene, and yes we all remember that, the juice running down his naked flesh and the final act, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one to buy a peach and try it out all the way! As in real live the conversation lurches, there is silence. The atmosphere comes and goes, the tensions felt portrayed felt by the viewer. I did see it on the big screen, well bigger screen and was impressed so I got the DVD and watched at home where it is even more impressive and intimate an experience. There was so much in this film that reminded me of my early sexual gropings and attempts to come to terms with love.This was not two pretty boys who spent time in the gym working before working it out in the hay fields movie (nice as they might be) but a true coming of age/realization film full of brilliant moments, most of it will remain somewhere in my brain always, from the peach sequence (and who hasn't gone right out and tried that) to the fathers last words. Brilliant

What can I say, I read the book and now the dvd, stunning film and the acting is Oscar worthy. Both main leads have put heart and soul into the story and in my book both should have got a Oscar each, you need to watch this and see it's about falling in love no matter who you are or how you are. A few seem to think this film is wrong as it's a young lad with older man, all I can say is get your mind out of the gutter and stop writing rubbish about a love story, you are just looking hard to rubbish a stunning film.you could change the main actors to female, or male female, etc and you still end up with a love story, no matter the age. Armi Hammer in my book has never been better in a film and from what I have read both actors are ready in a few years to take on part two and maybe part three, to see where and what's happened to them in life, I'm not going to give anything away but if you enjoy a love story then this film is for you, it will draw you in and take you on there short ride of finding each other and finding love and then life. It's a full 5 star movie from me and I did not want it to end..... Just enjoy this film for what it has to say......... Love.

Ok, so positives and this is why I rated this with 3 stars. The cinematography is beautiful. It captures that small town feeling really well. It could be in any of these countries: France, Spain, Italy Greece. If you've ever been to any of those countries and driven into the countryside you'll find a town like this. Dusty roads, the town square, a bank, a bar, people sitting outside watching the world go by, wooden shutters on the pastel coloured buildings and a church. You can almost smell orange and peach blossom in the air. It's just beautiful and this film evokes lovely memories for me.SPOILER ALERTS SPOILER ALERTSSo, the story: handsome, athletic, popular, charming, sexy guy arrives at a large house in the countryside ostensibly to finish his own thesis, but also help the incumbent professor with research. The family are all intelligent, artistic and talented in different ways. The son is a clever teenage boy whose knowledge all comes from reading and not from life experiences and so, as he says later in the film "he knows nothing" . He is unsure of his emotional feelings, is very immature, some would say precocious and doesn't know where his sexual orientation lies. These are pretty common experiences for an adolescent as far as I remember, although that was a very, very long time ago!!. He is obviously attracted to the American visitor, but then so is everyone else, quite understandably!Before continuing with the story, why do they converse with each other in different languages? French. german, italian? The boy even speaks french on and off with his female italian friend. Why exactly? I found it very tedious.My view of the relationship between the two varies considerably from other viewers. For me, the 20+ American seems to be 'grooming' the boy...drawing him in and pushing him away, but each time drawing him closer. The boy is very unsure about his sexuality and embarks on a sexual relationship with a female friend...to check things out. Oliver, the American, eventually has sex with Elio after a fumbled attempt by Elio whilst they are out cycling together (he grabs Oliver's crotch). Is it love? Well, in my opinion it wasn't, but obviously that's just my opinion.When Oliver has to return to the US at the end of the summer, the two head off together to spend some time alone with each other. One night Elio get very drunk and sick, meanwhile Oliver is dancing with a lady who happens to be listening to a song which Oliver knows. The two part at the railway station with the usual "I'll never forget you" speech and Elio returns home saddened by the loss of the man who gave him his first homosexual encounter.Forward to winter. The family have returned to their country residence. Oliver phones and speaks to Elio's parents first. He is then handed over to Elio and in the space of no time at all, announces that he is getting engaged in the spring! So, the love he had for Elio was so real that 4 months later he tell him he is about to marry. Well that's love for you!For the final scene, which in my view, is the best piece of acting in the film, Elio stares into the fire and says nothing, but his face speaks volumes.The acting is okay, although I found some of it wooden at times. There are moments of super acting and others where they just seem to be walking through the words.After watching the film I had to read the book just to see what I had missed. In the book it appeared to me that Elio was 'stalking' Oliver. He is especially jealous when Oliver disappears regularly at night time. For Elio, this can only mean one thing. Oliver is having sexual encounters with pretty much everyone and anyone. At one point he even imagines him having sex with their handyman.I couldn't find any reference to the finding of an Hellenic bronze in the book. Perhaps I missed it? Why put in a scene which doesn't exist in the book, yet leave out so many important scenes which do?The latter part of the book is very different from the film. The pair head off to Rome. They have been treated to a beautiful room in a posh hotel, courtesy of Elio's father. Quite different from the pensione in the film. Here Elio has a 'road to Damascus' experience. The beauty of Rome, the friendship of Oliver's fiends, the acceptance of their relationship, the freedom to be free. Yes, Elio, does get very drunk and yes he is sick. However, the scene where Oliver dances with a stranger? It doesn't happen. Why was that added when so much of importance was left out? Obviously to make a film based entirely on the book would made it far too long, I appreciate that. However, I felt that some parts were added/removed/altered quite unnecessarily.For me, "God's Own Country" was a far, far superior film. The cinematography in that was just as good as in CMBYN. Totally different of course, but it captured the feel of winter in the wilds of Yorkshire perfectly for me. The acting was much better as was the storyline. If you haven't watched tat film I highly recommend you buy/rent/watch it.

劇場で観て心奪われ、その晩に購入しました。綺麗で切ない映画です。（もっと良い感想をお伝えしたいのですが、私ごときでは力不足）9月に日本版が発売されるまでリピート再生です。本当に買って良かった。

Joli film avec un de mes acteurs préférés du moment Timothy Chalamet. A voir absolument!

Ayant vu ce film en streaming, j'étais pressée de l'acheter. Contente, je peux le visionner quand je le veux. Et pour un prix plutôt intéressant. Je recommande.

One of British Director David Lean’s earliest and greatest films is “Brief Encounter.” Made in 1945 from a play by Noel Coward, it is the story of a man and woman who meet by chance at a railway station, find they like each others’ company, and after a few friendly get-togethers realize they are falling in love. Their problem is that they are both married, but not to each other, so they sadly agree their love can’t be consummated and say good-bye where they met - which actually is a real station, not a movie set, and has become something of a destination of pilgrimage for devoted fans of this great classic to see where it was shot.The beautiful 2017 film celebrating the brief (and definitely consummated) romance between two young men, “Call Me By Your Name,” was also shot in a real place, an actual 17th century villa and estate in Northern Italy. Some smart businessman should buy it now and start charging admission, because it is currently for sale and would quickly become a similar shrine for the many, many ardent fans of this amazing movie.I was a little late to first see this masterpiece (and yes, it is a masterpiece), on a Monday night in March. But after watching it three times and reading Andre Aciman’s stunning 2007 novel of the same title - all in one week, thank you - my judgment that this movie is a masterpiece is neither unusual nor atypical. After reading about this film all over the Internet, it’s fair to say that if you like this movie, you’ll likely be besotted with it, and quite emotionally hung over from the experience.While I unabashedly love both the novel and the movie, I am grateful I saw the movie first. They both tell the story of Elio Perlman, the precocious 17-year-old son of an American classics professor and Italian mother. Elio speaks 3 languages and is a classical musical prodigy, plays piano and guitar, who falls in love and slowly initiates an affair with his father’s hunky American academic assistant, Oliver, 24, during one of the long summers which Elio and his multilingual parents always spend at their family villa. The inevitable difference between the film and the book is that while the movie visualizes the characters’ actions and expressed words with ultimate cinematic skill and grace, the book is Elio’s rich inner narrative of being new to manhood, and struggling with the ecstatic frenzy of expressing his love to another man for the first time. Page after page of the novel compounds this much greater dimension to the story, while the film can only indirectly depict Elio’s titanic inner emotions.If I had read the book first, the movie might have unjustly seemed to be a disappointing, watered down rendition of the great and deeply affecting work of art that in fact inhabits both. However, this takes nothing away from Italian Director Luca Guadagnino’s astonishing film because it is a significant artistic and technical achievement, beautifully scripted by the venerable James Ivory (who was awarded an Oscar for his adopted screenplay), thoughtfully filmed under the direction of Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, and gracefully acted by Timothée Chalamet as Elio, Armie Hammer as Oliver, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Elio’s devoted and caring father. But frankly, the movie is better seen before starting the book because the lyric setting and the actors’ moving performances are the perfect frame for the reader to later visualize the author’s story, as the novel hurtles you around the heaving landscape of Elio’s late adolescent senses, feelings, and passions.The first time I saw the movie, along with simply being enthralled, I thought how atmospheric and European it is compared to “Ordinary People,” the Best Picture of 1979, which is a very American movie as it is driven by dialogue and plot and less by mood and place. However, both films are similar because the characters are burdened by intense and conflicting emotions. “Ordinary People” also ends with a very moving father’s dialogue with his son, much like what Elio’s father has with his. This very tender scene is one of two great dramatic crescendos at the end of “Call Me By Your Name,” and is all the more profound because few have ever heard their own fathers’ nurture and guide them like this.Regarding Elio and Oliver in the film, I still have trouble seeing what attraction the latter has to the former! This is somewhat easier to understand in the book, but I think Elio is drawn to Oliver largely because this preternaturally handsome man is right in front of him for week after week, both are Jewish intellectuals, and his 17 year old heart has settled and fixed on him, period, as the idealized being Elio aspires to hold and become. Elio’s adoration of Oliver is also understood by the novel’s eventual account of their intensely emotional sex life.Yet, despite Elio’s passionate love for him, which the formerly aloof Oliver comes to fully return, he is a flawed character and just does not add up in the end. This, I suspect, was reflected in casting Armie Hammer for the role, because he plays the most unlikely of Jews, far more of a WASP prince in a Ralph Lauren ad, and as emotionally inhibited as any of my fellow members of this particular tribe. In the end, his abandonment of Elio for heterosexual marriage is no surprise.Along with Elio narrating his own joyful yet tormented inner life, the other big difference between the novel and the movie is the ending. The book’s exuberant night out in Rome, straight out of a Fellini film, sets us all up for Elio’s impending emotional devastation, which ascends from the lovers’ parting to Oliver’s subsequent termination of their relationship, overshadows the rest of the book and haunts the reader long after the last page is closed.The film’s ending is much sharper - telescoped by the demands of the medium. But as both are equally and eloquently very sad, it is more than fair to credit the film’s ending as authentic and completely true to the book. This is unsurprising given the quality of this film yet wonderful nevertheless, because throughout both the movie and the novel, we are always feeling with and for Elio – his joy, his anxiety and fear, his lust, his ardor and devotion, and in the end his heartbreak.I have seldom – if ever – been as deeply touched by a romantic movie, or for that matter by any other novel. Admittedly, I am the perfect customer for any kind of Merchant-Ivory gay romance. What’s not to like about handsome men, the Italian countryside, and cultivated people, all inhabiting architecture I have dreamed of for years? And how nice it is to see movie characters reading for pleasure and listening to classical music!However, my deep appreciation for this story is not just because I may fit the demographics and marketers expect me to like it. “Call Me By Your Name” on page and screen is an achingly beautiful meditation on joy and loss, of having all your heart could want and then watching it vanish right before your eyes, in an instant.We know this because as always in this story, we are with Elio, never more so than in the film’s final scene, just after his last transatlantic phone call from Oliver has ended. It's Hanukkah and snowing outside, Oliver is back in the United States and has told Elio that he “might be getting married next spring” to a woman he has known “on and off for two years.”Dazed, disappointed, dejected, Elio wanders into the dining room, crouches before the fireplace, and stares into the crackling flames. The scene then cuts to a head on shot of Elio’s face filling the center right of the frame and then dramatically holds it for three and one half minutes, while to the left the title card appears for the very first time in this movie, and then the credits roll. Dumbstruck by empathy, we watch this young man silently review everything that happened, everything he felt, and everything he had with Oliver, that now is all gone.An extended wordless close up of one emotive face is a big risk for any director to take. But Luca Guadagnino deserves the highest praise for making it perfect, confident that Timothée Chalamet had the acting chops to rivet our attention for that long, and in us to open up to Elio’s pain. And at the end of this elegiac scene, a fleeting gesture establishes that this connection between character and audience has been made, when for a very brief moment, Chalamet looks straight into the camera lens and then turns away as the screen fades to black.This is an actor of amazing talent, the real star of a noble film which portrays with such compassion and intelligence the love two men can have for each other, simply because we are people, just people.I could go on and on about the technical aspects of the production that make this movie a masterpiece, but not now. Ultimately, this novel and movie recall great and wonderful feelings often forgotten with age. But simultaneously, both also point out experiences that are rare and even absent for many. Romantic love is not overrated, but because not everyone finds or keeps it, it is wildly oversold. Life’s arbitrary circumstances can place the exuberant emotions of elation and joy just out of reach, and instead of nourishing the soul, their tantalizing inaccessibility only mocks desire.We too look into the fireplace, in company with Elio.

L`histoire derrière ce film est très touchante et exprime très bien les sentiments ressentis durant une recherche d'identité lors de l'adolescence