In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.... (Full plot summary below)
In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
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Dazed and ConfusedCarmen GrayThe bond between Elio and Oliver grows tentatively, but unleashes forceful emotions that reverberate through all the relationships in a film both hilarious and gorgeously sad, that crackles with sexual tension. |
RTÉ (Ireland)Harry GuerinThe twists and turns here will mirror something - or better still someone - from your own life as the story unfolds in drawing rooms, piazzas, discos and bars. If every film flowed as beautifully as this one we'd rarely see daylight. |
GuardianPeter BradshawSaturated with poetic languor and a deeply sophisticated sensuality. |
The TelegraphRobbie CollinStuhlbarg, who’s a treasure throughout, gets a fatherly monologue towards the film’s end that’s so observantly and tenderly performed, you can barely catch your breath. It’s one beautiful moment in a film that’s filled with them – gone in a heartbeat, but leaving the kind of ripples that reach across a lifetime. |
Film Ireland MagazineStephen Porzio... a work as heart-warming as it is gorgeous. |
Little White LiesAdam WoodwardA beautiful film about love and longing, one you'll want (and need) to watch again and again and again. |
CinegarageErick EstradaCall Me by Your Name an ode to love and its precipices... [Full review in Spanish] |
TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanLuminous, breathtaking, and so extraordinarily intimate one can scarcely believe something so miraculous has been captured in front of a camera by actors, the picture is close to a miracle. "Call Me by Your Name" is a motion picture to cherish. |
Sunday Times (UK)Tom ShoneGuadagnino hasn't adapted Aciman's novel so much as interrogated its moods, going at it con brio. |
Irish IndependentPaul WhitingtonHeat hangs heavy in the air in this beguiling, almost overpoweringly sensual drama, which is languidly paced, and filled with the sleepy sights and sounds of a northern Italian summer. |