Film
Call Me By Your Name
- Director
- Luca Guadagnino
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 132 mins
For his first project since 2009’s floptastic The City of Your Final Destination (unreleased in the UK), James Ivory, of Merchant-Ivory fame, adapts André Aciman‘s award-winning gay coming-of-age novel. Originally he was going to direct it too, but the long-gestating project eventually wound up in the hands of A Bigger Splash director Luca Guadagnino.
Set in the sun-drenched, picture postcard northern Italy of 1983, it’s the sensual story of Elio (Timothée Chalamet), 17-year-old son of a Jewish professor, who falls for Oliver (Armie Hammer), one of his father’s research assistants, during a sultry summer at the family’s luxurious villa. Festival reviews were ecstatic and Ivory won an Oscar for his screenplay, though a few eyebrows were raised at Guadagnino’s decision to cast straight actors in gay roles and to tell such a passionate story with no explicit sex scenes.
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