Call Me by Your Name

Released Jan 19, 2018

2h 12m

Romance

Drama

LGBTQ+

List

94%

Tomatometer

365 Reviews

86%

Audience Score

10,000+ Ratings

It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

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Critics Consensus

Call Me by Your Name offers a melancholy, powerfully affecting portrait of first love, empathetically acted by Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

A modern-day Visconti, Italian director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) grants us entry into a world not only of wealth but of culture, which can be just as liberating.

Mar 25, 2020

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Robert Daniels

812filmreviews

Call Me By Your Name survives because of poignant screenwriting, keen directing, and tender acting.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 27, 2018

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Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

The characters' beauty and intellectual perfection is so consummate that I couldn't entirely believe that these people actually had genitals-that they could ever sweat or incur sunburn.

Mar 8, 2018

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Brendan Cassidy

InSession Film

It would be easy, but superficial, to lump Call Me by Your Name as just a romance film between two young men, but director Luca Guadagnino thankfully has a lot more on his mind.

Jul 2, 2024

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Benedict Seal

Vague Visages

Call Me by Your Name skips through time like a dream, or a calcified, powerful memory. Guadagnino succeeds remarkably in working the themes into the craft and, like love that ends too soon, so does the film.

Dec 5, 2023

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Mira Fox

The Forward

Luca Guadagnino’s lush Italian masterpiece, “Call Me by Your Name,” is full of romantic subtleties: long lingering looks, brief touches, meaning-laden passages read aloud. But nothing is ever fully overt...

Rated: A+

Aug 2, 2023

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Elisa R

Eu gostaria muito desse filme se ele nao romantizasse a pedofilia, ate porque o vizual dele é muito bonito e a cidade onde ele se passa contribui para isso. Este filme contribui com muitos fetiches e tem cenas que para mim foram desconfortaveis de se assistir. Nao consigo entender como tantas pessoas gostam desse filme.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/16/24

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Audience Member

You know it's a great movie when you feel like you are still watching it hours and days after the movie is over! The last movie that had this impact on me was Zorba the Greek. What a work of art.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/08/24

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Audience Member

The cinematography was poetic. The lines held meaning whether it's easily noticed when they are first said. There is silence in all the right places. The end felt to me like I had gotten broken up with, I cried for an hour.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/11/24

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IndieGo P

This film only gets stronger with time. A true masterpiece.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/18/24

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Benjamin H

A beautifully directed (and shot), deeply affecting and stunningly written coming-of-age romance film sewed in delightful realism, Call Me By Your Name should perhaps have had a few more scenes in building drama, but this is a reflective, vivid and humane picture that has top-notch performances from Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

05/03/24

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Levi I

wonderful story telling

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/22/24

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Synopsis

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Producer: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito
Screenwriter: James Ivory, Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: RT Features, La Cinéfacture, Frenesy Film
Rating: R (Sexual Content|Nudity|Some Language)
Genre: Romance, Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 19, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 23, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.0M
Runtime: 2h 12m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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