Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Is it better to speak or die?
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.
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| Type | Movie |
|---|---|
| Released | 1 October 2017 |
| Genre | Romance, Drama |
| Director | Luca Guadagnino |
| Starring | Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg |
| Runtime | 132 min |
| Rated | R |
| Scores | Rotten Tomatoes (average) 8.7/10 · Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 94/100 · IMDb 7.8/10 · TMDB users 8.1/10 |
| Budget | $4 million |
| Box office | $43 million worldwide |
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What kind of watch this is
Luca Guadagnino directs a romance drama that plays out over a single Italian summer in 1983. The film runs 132 minutes, a duration that feels deliberate in its pacing. It focuses on the slow burn between a 17-year-old and a visiting graduate student, letting the heat of the season do much of the narrative work. The tagline asks if it is better to speak or die. It is a quiet piece of cinema that trusts the audience to feel the weight of a single afternoon.
What the critics said
The numbers sit high. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 94% Tomatometer score as of August 2024. Metacritic lists a 94/100 Metascore as of July 2025, which it labels universal acclaim. That is a strong consensus for a film about summer.
Boyd van Hoeij called Timothée Chalamet's turn "the true breakout of the film." Peter Debruge noted the movie "advances the canon of gay cinema." The praise centers on the direction and the lead, a pairing that rarely misses.
How it did with audiences
The budget was $4 million. The worldwide take was $43 million. In Hollywood, that gap is a financial miracle; in arithmetic, it is just a very strong quarter. On TMDB, users rate it 8.1 out of 10. IMDb lists a 7.8/10 score as of March 2026. Audiences didn't just watch it; they kept watching it, week after week, until the numbers stopped looking like a fluke and started looking like a consensus.
Awards
James Ivory took home the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2018. He was the oldest winner in a competitive category at the time. The film also claimed the European People's Choice Award. It landed on the National Board of Review and AFI top 10 lists. Seven total wins. Six nominations. The math works out to a very polite industry.
What came next for the cast
Timothée Chalamet stepped from Interstellar into Dune, a leap from small parts to cosmic scales. Armie Hammer moved from The Social Network to Death on the Nile, a shift in scale if not necessarily in stature. Michael Stuhlbarg went from Arrival to Bones and All, trading sci-fi for body horror. The credits do not map cause and effect. They simply mark where the road bends.
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Sources
- Call Me by Your Name on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q25136757 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Call Me by Your Name (film)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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