Call Me by Your Name

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Call Me by Your Name

R

2018

2h 12m

Romance

Drama

LGBTQ+

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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

03/25/2020

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.

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Robert Daniels

812filmreviews

08/27/2018

3/4

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

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Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

03/08/2018

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.

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Christos Tsiolkas

The Saturday Paper

Aug 19

One always fears hyperbole as a critic but I’d rather that than not to do justice to this moment. It is stunning in its execution and in its maturity.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

07/17/2025

3/5

Exceedingly slow and lumbering with awkward posturing throughout, Call Me By Your Name, even in its inspiring peaks, is missing the rapturous sweep to bring outsiders into these taboos.

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Joe Lipsett

The Queer Gaze (Podcast)

05/29/2025

5/5

Luca Guadagnino's adaptation is a sublime queer romance anchored by Chalamet's assured lead performance and great chemistry with Hammer. And a scene with Michael Stuhlbarg that'll break your heart.

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Christopher

Jun 28

Excellent movie. very well done. the Acting was awesome.

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Juan

Jun 28

Absolute masterpiece!

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Victor

Jun 28

What a wonderful movie with it’s beautiful cinematography, amazing soundtrack from artist as Sufjan Stevens and The Psychedelic Furs. A brutal and powerful ending, a deep emotional coming to age modern day classic.

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Juandi

Jun 22

I enjoyed this story but I do feel it was a bit too long. The tone & atmosphere is set perfectly very early on in the movie. The performances are all enjoyable & naturally executed.

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Tobias B

Jun 16

One of the best films ever made in my opinion. It’s artsy, but also very poignant and extremely emotional. Both Armie Hammmer’s and Timothee Chalamet’s best performances of their careers (so far)

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Fatou B

Jun 13

Beautiful story. Beautiful scenery. Incredible acting.

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Synopsis

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.

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: Frenesy Film, La Cinéfacture, RT Features
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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