Call Me by Your Name
Northern Italian summer, one very significant peach.
Reviewed by The Jibbi Editors
Ravishing. Loses a rainbow for the age gap it never quite reckons with.
- 2017
- 132 min
- 95% on Rotten Tomatoes
- 7.8 on IMDb
- #romance
- #coming-of-age
Our take
Seventeen-year-old Elio spends a summer at his family’s villa with Oliver, the graduate student staying with them, and Luca Guadagnino shoots the whole thing like a memory of heat. It is unhurried in a way almost nothing else is, and Timothée Chalamet’s final shot at the fireplace is a genuinely great piece of acting.
The discourse is part of the film now and worth having: the age gap sits differently every year, and the source novel is franker about it. What is not in doubt is the father’s monologue near the end, which is the most generous thing any parent says in any film here.
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Scores
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- Jibbi Score — 4 out of 5 rainbows. Ravishing. Loses a rainbow for the age gap it never quite reckons with.
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- Rotten Tomatoes — 95%, via OMDb.
- IMDb — 7.8 out of 10 from 365,293 votes, via OMDb.
- Metacritic — 94 out of 100, via OMDb.
- TMDB — 8.1 out of 10 from 13,019 votes, refreshed daily.
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The plot, officially
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.