Call Me by Your Name

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Call Me by Your Name

R

Released Jan 19, 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

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.

Mar 25, 2020

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Robert Daniels

812filmreviews

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

Rated: 3/4

Aug 27, 2018

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Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

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.

Mar 8, 2018

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

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.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 17, 2025

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Joe Lipsett

The Queer Gaze (Podcast)

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.

Rated: 5/5

May 29, 2025

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JD Duran

InSession Film

There’s not only pain and heartache in that reflection by the fire, but also a tinge of hope and relief. It’s astounding in how powerful it is.

Aug 8, 2024

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Vince C

I will start off by saying I really do like the actors in this movie, in their other works. However, this movie is just boring and really feels like the entire time that not much is actually happening. I get the story it is trying to tell but it just falls flat. Points for the filming and location since Italy is clearly beautiful. I feel like it's trying to be 'Brokeback Mountain' (which is a great film) set in Italy.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/22/25

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Audience Member

It's agood movie but it makes me sad because idializing a pololo but no one has ever loved me, but ignoring that, the movie is very emotional and brought me a tear or two, just like "Young Hearts" and "Lalaland" Pablo Echeverrí

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/15/25

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Big M

SO choppy. It started with no context and scenes ended abruptly and jumped to the next with no smooth transitions nor context. Only saving grace was how stunningly handsome Armie Hammer is. I finally had to pull out my phone to read the context of what this movie was about. I couldn't stand it after a while and left early.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/04/25

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Mike М

Call me by your name is tender, emotional and beautifully shot. The cast is incredible. The film really captures that first love with honesty and depth.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/23/25

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Tero H

This is one of the movies that you just have to see. Location, cast, characters, screenwriting, direction, are masterclasses. All do their best job and you can not ask more.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/22/25

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Charles H

Call me your name" is the most beautiful and profoundly passionate film. It truly makes you feel the crashing waves and riptide of the emotions, as there story unfolds. I can say for certainty that this film is by far the most breath taking film I had ever seen. It truly takes your breathe away....... Actors played amazing through the whole film. The story line was beautiful and flawless in my personal opinion it swept you up and drops you back down.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/17/25

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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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