Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name (2017)

Is it better to speak or die?

Release:2017
Runtime:2h 12m
Country:Brazil
Director:Luca Guadagnino
Language:English

Keywords

Based On Novel Or BookUpper ClassItalySwimming PoolComing Of AgeloveBreaking The Fourth WallSummer

Call Me by Your Name rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.8/10· 351K votes
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Metacritic94%
TMDb8.1/10· 13K votes

With 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.8/10 on IMDb and 94/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Call Me by Your Name

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Cast of Call Me by Your Name

  • Timothée Chalamet

    Timothée Chalamet

    as Elio

  • Armie Hammer

    Armie Hammer

    as Oliver

  • Michael Stuhlbarg

    Michael Stuhlbarg

    as Mr. Perlman

  • Amira Casar

    Amira Casar

    as Annella

  • Esther Garrel

    Esther Garrel

    as Marzia

  • Victoire du Bois

    Victoire du Bois

    as Chiara

  • Vanda Capriolo

    Vanda Capriolo

    as Mafalda

  • A

    Antonio Rimoldi

    as Anchise

  • E

    Elena Bucci

    as Bambi

  • Marco Sgrosso

    Marco Sgrosso

    as Nico

  • André Aciman

    André Aciman

    as Mounir

  • Peter Spears

    Peter Spears

    as Isaac

Call Me by Your Name facts

Budget
$3.5M
Box office
$43.1M

Our take on Call Me by Your Name

Luca Guadagnino's 2017 romance unfolds over one sun-drenched Italian summer, as 17-year-old Elio falls for an older graduate student staying with his family. Sensual, tender and aching with first love and its loss, it's a swooning study of desire and memory. If its languid beauty and emotional honesty moved you, seek out lyrical romantic dramas about awakening, longing and summers that change everything.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

  • Luca Guadagnino captures the intoxication of first love with aching visual and emotional poetry
  • Coming-of-age story explores identity and sexuality with remarkable grace and sensitivity
  • 1980s Italian setting becomes sensory experience of heat, beauty, and youthful desire

What the audience disliked

  • Slow pacing may frustrate viewers accustomed to faster narrative momentum and tension
  • Erotic content focuses on adult-minor relationship, raising significant contemporary concerns

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