CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME RELEASED : 2017 DIRECTOR : LUCA GUADAGNINO "Is it better to speak or die?" “Call Me by Your Name,” begins in the summer of 1983, in a place so enchanted, that it belongs in a fairy tale. The location, the opening credits tell us, is “Somewhere in Northern Italy.” Such vagueness is deliberate: the point of a paradise is that it could exist anywhere but that, once you reach the place, you never forget it. Thus it is that a young American named Oliver (Armie Hammer) arrives, dopey with jet lag, at the house of his Professor Mr Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his wife (Amira Casar). “We’ll have to put up with him for six long weeks,” Annella says, with a sigh. Well, not long enough, as it turns out. One can pack a whole lifetime into these six weeks. The first words of the film are “The Usurper” , uttered by...