Call Me by Your Name

film by Guadagnino [2017]

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Call Me by Your Name is a 2017 film directed by Luca Guadagnino. The story is set in 1983 Italy and follows a summer romance between 17-year-old Elio and Oliver, who is interning with Elio's father. Guadagnino, who is openly gay, often explores queer themes in his films. The film is an adaptation of a novel by André Aciman and received generally positive reviews.12

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Timothée Chalamet
Breakthrough in Call Me by Your Name and other films from the late 2010s
…he starred in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name, an adaptation of André Aciman’s 2007 novel about first love. He played Elio, a cosmopolitan teenager living in Italy during the 1980s, who falls for his archaeologist father’s summer intern, Oliver (Armie Hammer). Chalamet’s performance garnered rave reviews and legions…
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…he starred in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name, an adaptation of André Aciman’s 2007 novel about first love. He played Elio, a cosmopolitan teenager living in Italy during the 1980s, who falls for his archaeologist father’s summer intern, Oliver (Armie Hammer). Chalamet’s performance garnered rave reviews and legions…
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Luca Guadagnino
…perhaps his most well-known film Call Me by Your Name (2017), an adaptation of a 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman. Set in 1983 Italy, the film follows a summer affair between 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), an intern to Elio’s father. Like Guadagnino’s…
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…perhaps his most well-known film Call Me by Your Name (2017), an adaptation of a 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman. Set in 1983 Italy, the film follows a summer affair between 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), an intern to Elio’s father. Like Guadagnino’s…
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Merchant and Ivory
…wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Call Me by Your Name (2017), which he adapted from a novel by André Aciman. In 2021 he published the memoir Solid Ivory.
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…wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Call Me by Your Name (2017), which he adapted from a novel by André Aciman. In 2021 he published the memoir Solid Ivory.
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