Call Me By Your Name is Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 romantic drama movie that is adapted from Andre Aciman’s novel of the same name. The film is set in the summer of 1983, spanned in exquisite Northern Italy, and revolves around two characters who fall in love with each other during Elio’s teens and childhood. Timothée Chalamet plays Elio Perlman, a 17 year old student alongside Armie Hammer who plays Oliver, a 24 year old American-student.
An excavation intern for a scholar, Perlman integrates into a family comprised of students affectionately. He lives exuberantly in the thought of Elio, perpetually an introverted boy who spends his time with family and friends. Although he is taken aback by Oliver’s precise yet extravagant appearance, the two men slowly start building a loving bond. Their age differences along with their diverse cultures set the perfect backdrop for a deep and passionate romance.
As summer begins, Elio and Oliver take the chance to have brief episodes of joy, desire and vulnerability with each other. Their romance is not only transformative and tangible considering the span of how long is Michael Oliver’s romance there with Elio but is also cut short by the connection they build. The emotional climax of the plot on the other hand is an essay on heartache, struggle of identity and self love as this is all new for Elio to experience with his first love.
Cast & Crew
Timothée Chalamet as Elio Perlman: Chalamet makes this an award winning portrayal and gives this role the deserved depth by making it engaging, gentle and intensely fragile through Elio’s eyes in the film.
Armie Hammer as Oliver: Through Hammer, one is to understand that an enigma can equally be a source reassurance for someone else, and that’s what Elio believed in Oliver’s confidence and charm.
Michael Stuhlbarg as Mr. Perlman: As a father figure, Stuhlbarg advocates for compassion and intelligence while mentoring Elio in the film with one of the notable speeches around emotional development aspects of love and loss.
Amira Casar as Annella Perlman: Elio’s mother played by Amira Casar serves as a critic and professional caretaker at the same tim who nurtures the family’s cultural and friendly atmosphere at home.
Director: Luca Guadagnino was able to replicate the essence and aura of the book by making the film sensual, relatable and aesthetically appealing as it explores great depths of human dynamics.
Screenplay: Caller Me By Your Name is a remarkable film. As the screenplay depicts screenplay James Ivory’s oscar winning Call Me By Your Name movie captures the main source and lyrical song with its core emotions and then makes changes so that the film’s tone and pace can be improved.
Themes and Analysis
The Complexity of First Love:
In the short romance movie, the beginning love is always celebrated for its great happiness and sorrow in the film that is mentioned hereinabove. First time love is such a tender feeling, it makes Elio for example move from confusion and missing somebody to feeling happy and even sad.
Desire As A Tenacity:
The given desire rules and dominate over one and would eventually work to reach a realization. It started with an ambivalence of realizing who they are, what they want and how deep their emotions could drown them but later on. Elio had and still holds such perspective shifting times in his life.
Time and what we make out of it:
The story has deep essence of summer that is raw and feels so short lived which is exactly how Elio and Oliver’s love was and regrettably such is youth. What is crucial is how this collection reminds us after we are done with a movie, important even heart breaking love memories develop us and outlive the moment.
Emotional Vulnerability and Acceptance:
The motivational speech made by Perlman to Elio fairly demonstrates the entire theme of the movie and it is acceptance of oneself. It is imperative to give and acknowledge Elio’s and the audience’s feeling that love entails acceptance of both the joy and pain.
Cinematography and Visual Style
The scenic shots of the Italian countryside by Sayombhu Mukdeeprom in the movie are supplemented by the use of warm color palettes and close-up shots to intensify the romance between Elio and Oliver. They immerse the audience with slow magic of Elio and Oliver’s love with time and a deep sadness of separation. The characters become more than just characters, they become real, and each movement, gesture and glance has new profound meanings.
Soundtrack
Compositions by Sufjan Stevens, especially ‘Mystery of Love’ and ‘Visions of Gideon’ make the film even more engaging due to their distraught and pained qualities which intensifies the overall theme of loss and grief in the movie. The film is further complemented by great 1980s pop and classical piano pieces which enhance the already tear-jerking elements of the film.
Call Me By Your Name was well received. Timothée Chalamet and Luca Guadagnino were praised for their work and the film won an International Feature Oscar, an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and got nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Critics appreciated the film for its nuanced approach to same-sex love and desire while also offering a more heartbreaking experience.
The movie’s score on IMDb is 8.1, confirming its reputation as a good movie that manages to move people through feelings, impressive visuals, and acting.
Call Me By Your Name’s fans appreciated it for being realistic and emotional, while some thought the pacing could be improved and talked about the protagonists’ age gap. But the overarching theme of emotions was appreciated all across the globe.
Comparison to the Novel:
The film, despite being a cutoff from Elle’s internal monologues, stays true to André Aciman’s book and focuses more on the scenes. The book’s “peach scene” where Elio is bare and open about his vulnerability is still in sequence which fits well in the movie and Elio’s character will fit nicely in it as well. The film deceitfully omits the epilogue where the plot follows the character many summers after the original plot hence, the only scene we get to see is Elio sitting by the fireplace only to go silent with his thoughts.
Conclusion
Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer perfectly depict romance in their movie Call Me By Your Name, the direction is also remarkably well done by Luca Guadagnino which results in the movie being a piece of art. The movie gets emotions right, be it euphoria or sadness, which will help the audience settle on the cinematic experience long after the movie ends, displaying the first feelings intricately. The movie is a whole in terms of the plot being suitable for every generation as it portrays essence romance in a very diverse way.
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