Call Me by Your Name Movie Review

Call Me by Your Name is a vividly captured tale of first love between two young men. Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, it has strong sexual content. While nudity is brief and fleeting (a woman's breasts, a man's buttocks) and the sex scenes aren't graphically explicit, there are multiple scenes of lovemaking, both between a teen girl and boy and between a teen boy and a man in his 20s. Oral sex is implied, and there's a scene in which a man ejaculates into a fruit, and the fruit is handled after. Teens smoke frequently, and both teens and young adults drink, at least once to excess.

The film is directed by Luca Guadagnino, He is a director and producer, known for Call Me by Your Name (2017), Io sono l'amore (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015).

WHAT'S THE STORY?
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, based on André Aciman's novel of the same name, is the chronicle of a brilliant teen's first love -- a same-sex romance that takes place during an ideal Italian summer. Young Elio (Timothée Chalamet), an American multi-instrumentalist, is with his parents, both academics, on vacation at their summer home. After his professor father's (Michael Stuhlbarg) latest grad student resident, Oliver (Armie Hammer), arrives, Elio soon finds himself struggling with strong, unexpected feelings.

MOVIE INFO
Rating: R (for sexual content, nudity and some language)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Directed By: Luca Guadagnino
Written By: James Ivory
In theaters: Jan 19, 2018 Wide
Runtime: 130 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Cast: Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Timothée Chalamet, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois

Source: CommonSenseMedia