Call Me By Your Name
By Kit Macdonald
Sophisticated, sensuous and poetic, Luca Guadagnino's enchanting 2017 love story features a very young Timothée Chalamet (his character in the film is 17 and barely looks even that old) in the role that brought him to international attention, and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Unfolding languidly in the gorgeous, sun-drenched Italian countryside in summer 1983, the story finds Chalamet playing Elio Perlman, an Italian-American who becomes romantically involved with Oliver (Armie Hammer), a charming and impossibly handsome 24-year-old American graduate student interning with Elio's archaeology professor father.
As Sufjan Stevens' achingly beautiful soundtrack lilts away in the background, the emotional resonance of the story grows ever deeper and more irresistible. One of the most sensitive and authentic takes on love, desire and heartbreak you're ever likely to see.