Like you might have imagined from the fact that I went back to see it a third time, the second viewing ended up changing my mind. That’s why I found myself watching it a second time. I started to have the feeling, in other words, that I might be the mistake in this specific equation. Ever since coming out ( pun unintended), Call me by your name had received brilliantly favourable reviews by anyone who expressed an opinion about it, and one of the people whom I most trust when it comes to cinema and TV recommendations had enthusiastically shared said opinions. I’m not sure what pushed me to give it another chance. The first time I watched it, I went into the experience with a certain wariness that definitely ended up contributing to my first impression that this movie, all in all, was not to my liking at all. Despite the fact that I’ve already seen it three times and that it definitely left a strong impression on me after each rewatch, for some reason, I couldn’t honestly say that he belongs to the list of my favourite films. I wouldn’t say that Call me by your name is one of my all-time favourite movies.

In this torridly brilliant atmosphere, Elio and Oliver will discover the heady beauty of desire over the course of a summer that will change their lives forever.

One day, Oliver (played by Armie Hammer), a charming American student working on his doctorate, joins the family for a summer internship as an assistant to Elio’s father. Despite his sophisticated personality and his prodigious intellect that make him seem already adult, there’s still a lot that Elio doesn’t know, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. Elio has a very close relationship with his father, a university professor who specialises in Greek and Roman studies, and his mother Annella, a translator, who provide him with a high education on a background ripe with natural pleasures. In the north of Italy, Elio Perlman (played by Timothée Chalamet), an American-Italian 17-year-old, spends the days with his family in their seventeenth-century villa, transcribing and playing classical music, reading books, and flirting with his friend Marzia. Synopsisįrom the novel of the same title by André Aciman, Call me by your name transports us to the summer of 1983. Call me by your name, a cinematic success that received glowing reviews from critics under every aspect but that may have had a different reaction from the wider audience.

Chiamami col tuo nome by André Aciman