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Home / Articles / Essays / Call Me by Your Name / Review: Call Me by Your Name is a gorgeous, erotic tale of first love

Alex Heeney / December 13, 2017

Review: Call Me by Your Name is a gorgeous, erotic tale of first love

In Call Me by Your Name, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Guadagnino captures what first love feels like, in all its fumbling, awkward, confusing, terrifying, joyous glory. This is the third piece in our Special Issue on the film. Read the rest of the issue here.

Call Me By Your Name, Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer
Michael Stuhlbarg, Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer appear in Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

Luca Guadagnino’s new film, Call Me by Your Name, is also his sweetest, calmest, and loveliest. It sneaks up on you. For 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and grad student Oliver (Armie Hammer), it’s both lust at first sight and a winding journey to each other — on bikes and in the water, through physical teasing and gentle intellectual one-upmanship in the Northern Italian countryside, summer 1983. Throughout, Guadagnino captures what first love feels like, in all its fumbling, awkward, confusing, terrifying, joyous glory. 

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Filed Under: Articles, Call Me by Your Name, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Must Reads Tagged With: Adaptations, LGBTQ, Sundance Film Festival

Alex Heeney

Alex is the Editor-in-Chief of The Seventh Row, based in San Francisco and from Toronto, Canada.

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