Call Me by Your Name (2018)
91%RT Audience Score: 86%
Awards & Nominations: Won 1 Oscar
95 wins & 260 nominations total
Call Me by Your Name offers a melancholy, powerfully affecting portrait of first love, empathetically acted by Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
Call Me By Your Name is like a warm hug from a friend you haven’t seen in years. It’s a beautiful film that captures the essence of first love and the bittersweet feeling of letting go. The stunning Italian scenery and the incredible performances from Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer make this movie a must-see. Plus, who doesn’t love a good coming-of-age story? It’s the perfect film to watch on a lazy Sunday afternoon with a glass of wine and a box of tissues.
Production Company(ies)
Fox 2000 Pictures, Chernin Entertainment, Levantine Films,
Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
Filming Location(s)
Crema, Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for sexual content, nudity and some language
Year of Release
2018
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:2h 12m
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Language(s):English, Italian, French, German, Hebrew
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jan 19, 2018 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 13, 2018
Genre(s)
Romance/Drama
Keyword(s)
starring Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois, directed by Luca Guadagnino, written by James Ivory, Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano, romance, drama, LGBTQ+, box office, budget, reviewed by J.R Jones, Robert Daniels, Jonathan Romney, Chris Stuckmann, Jordan Hoffman, Tom Long, Frank J Avella, David Reddish, Brian Eggert, Carson Timar, Ben Turner, Fletcher Powell, R-rated, Sony Pictures Classics, Peter Spears, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito
Worldwide gross: $41,888,660
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $49,293,476
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,340
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 5,375,515
US/Canada gross: $18,095,701
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $21,294,546
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,390
US/Canada opening weekend: $412,932
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $485,928
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,413
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): 4000000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $4,707,095
Production budget ranking: 1,920
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $2,534,771
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $42,051,610
ROI to date (est.): 581%
ROI ranking: 220
Timothée Chalamet – Elio Perlman
Michael Stuhlbarg – Mr. Perlman
Amira Casar – Annella Perlman
Esther Garrel – Marzia
Victoire Du Bois – Chiara
Director(s)
Luca Guadagnino
Writer(s)
James Ivory, Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano
Producer(s)
Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito
Film Festivals
Sundance, Berlin, Toronto
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
95 wins & 260 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Writing Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Winners, Oscar Winners
All Critics (366) | Top Critics (80) | Fresh (345) | Rotten (21)
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.
March 25, 2020
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
Call Me By Your Name survives because of poignant screenwriting, keen directing, and tender acting.
August 27, 2018 | Rating: 3/4
Robert Daniels
812filmreviews
TOP CRITIC
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.
March 8, 2018
Jonathan Romney
Film Comment Magazine
TOP CRITIC
This is a beautiful film — one that is startlingly real. It feels so blisteringly sensual and in the moment, that it’s almost impossible to ignore.
February 14, 2018 | Rating: A-
Chris Stuckmann
ChrisStuckmann.com
TOP CRITIC
“Call Me By Your Name” can be considered an idealistic film, but that’s only natural for something about young people experiencing something wonderful for the first time.
February 1, 2018
Jordan Hoffman
Times of Israel
TOP CRITIC
This coming-of-age love story is all texture, tone and nuance…Luca Guadagnino has made a lovely cinematic feather. And it floats down beautifully, riding a soft breeze of melancholy and grace.
December 29, 2017 | Rating: A-
Tom Long
Detroit News
TOP CRITIC
17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet, in his best performance to date) lives with his parents in suburban Northern Italy. Elio’s archaeologist papa (Michael Stuhlbarg) invites an American grad student (the always-wooden Armie Hammer), to spend the summer..
July 7, 2022 | Rating: B-
Frank J. Avella
Edge Media Network
Chalamet rocketed from obscurity onto the Hollywood A-List thanks to Call Me By Your Name, and with good reason: he didnt just give a great performance in the film, he gave the best performance of 2017.
March 20, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
David Reddish
Queerty
Call Me by Your Name taps into universal emotions that belong to everyone who has loved, and rewards our experience through luscious filmmaking.
March 16, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
Call Me By Your Name is a film that captures a human truth in a way like no others.
March 4, 2022 | Rating: A+
Carson Timar
ButteredPopcorn
While it’s the simmering sexual tension that keeps you watching for most of the film, it’s only later that you realise this is a character piece about a man’s bluster and how his confidence does not make him strong.
September 2, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
Ben Turner
The Pink Lens
The most humane and kind movie in a year that featured so many others filled with anxiety and darkness.
July 20, 2021
Fletcher Powell
KMUW – Wichita Public Radio…
Plot
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old young man, spends his days in his family’s 17th-century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio’s sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American college graduate student working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Michael Stuhlbarg gives a fantastic supporting performance in Call Me By Your Name, and his late film monologue is stirring.
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