Day 42 Call Me by Your Name [2017]
Screenplay James
Ivory
Based on ‘Call Me by Your Name’ by André
Aciman
Director Luca Guadagnino
Cinematography Sayombhu
Mukdeeprom
Music Sufjan
Stevens
Leads Armie Hammer,
Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel
Production Frenesy Film Company, La
Cinéfacture, RT Features, Water’s End Productions
IMDb 8.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes 96%
The Academy Award nominations were released
yesterday and as this is a film blog I should probably be commenting on them
somewhere. For now, I’ll stick with this though as it is hard enough to post
daily. I mention the Academy Awards as this film has been nominated for best
picture and it bloody well deserves it. Timothée Chalamet was also brilliant as
Elio and deservedly earned himself an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. I wasn’t
too sure about the casting of Armie Hammer as Oliver, he was great, but I just don’t
personally feel that he was right for the role. The film tells the story of
seventeen-year-old Elio falling in love with a graduate student Oliver who
comes to stay with Elio’s family over a summer to help Elio’s father with his
academic paperwork. It is about repressed sexuality and I can imagine that if someone who had experienced these feelings themselves watched it they would have
been blown away. It is incredibly emotional and passionate, yet delicate at
times. I didn’t like some scenes, the writing seems to be deliberately awkward
and perhaps it’s supposed to express what it’s truly like to be in this
situation but it didn’t work for me. Even though I watched on a shit quality
television I could still tell that it was beautifully shot. The location that
it is filmed in the Italian countryside is so beautiful of its own accord that
even I could have been DP. There are some outrageous scenes in it thanks to the
continuous building of nervous sexual tension between Elio and Oliver (the
peach scene!!!!). The music is beautiful thanks to the tear-jerking chords of
Sufjan Stevens. Definite win this one, I’m interested to see whether it wins
anything.
Acting 3.5
/ 4
Writing 2.5
/ 4
Cinematography 3
/ 4
Music 3
/ 4
HWF rating 3 / 4