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Armie Hammer & Timothée Chalamet find love in Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
A meaningful, pure, romantic drama that focuses on a love that has no boundaries, the utterly raw and important character building qualities of life and the building of memories and experiences that should never be forgotten. Pure cinematic perfection.
http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2017/09/08/call-me-by-your-name-review/
TORONTO
INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
TIFF 2017 Review
Call Me by Your Name
Armie Hammer delivers a fine performance in this heart-wrenching,
utterly brilliant piece of filmmaking, which may just be the film of the year.
by Paul Heath
September 8, 2017
‘A stunning portrait of love and romance’ ... Michael Stuhlbarg, Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer in Call Me by Your Name
Slowly and quietly, Armie Hammer is fast-becoming one of the finest and indeed most exciting American actors of his generation. Following a superb turn in this year’s Final Portrait comes this heart-wrenching but utter beautiful complementary piece which, like Stanley Tucci’s period film, made its European debut at the Berlin Film Festival back in February. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Portrait )
In Call Me by Your Name, Hammer plays the role of the dashing young American Oliver, a twenty-something student who is spending the summer of 1983 ‘somewhere in Northern Italy’ with Michael Stuhlbarg’s Mr. Perman, along with his French wife, Annella (Amira Casar), and their multi-lingual son Elio (Timothée Chalamet).
Elio is clearly bored of the sun-drenched rolling fields, the unlimited supply of cheap tobacco and the countless opportunities to go skinny-dipping in moonlit lakes with willing female companions. The arrival of Oliver changes all of that with the impressionable young seventeen-year-old clearly looking up to the handsome American both in terms of his strong-willed sensibilities, worldliness, intellect, and companionship.
The two form a quick bond, Elio slowly becoming intrigued by Oliver’s confidence rather than being threatened by it – though his charm is clearly starting to take effect the locals. Their six-week summer together is clearly heading in the obvious direction, and they begin to while away the hours together, be it lounging reading literature next to the small ‘pool’ next to the Perlman’s summer house, or taking trips to run errands into the local town. Elio, while engaging in a relationship with the beautiful teenager Marzia (Esther Garrel), clearly has feelings for Oliver, and that attraction is definitely mutual.
Call Me by Your Name is a stunning portrait of love and romance, expertly told by writer James Ivory who adapts from the source material – the original novel by André Aciman. From the wonderful opening title sequence, and throughout, the film is beautifully crafted, be it the near-flawless performances from its two leads, the skillful sun-drenched cinematography from Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, or the stunning largely piano-sourced musical accompaniment.
Armie Hammer excels as the alluring, likeable Oliver, but it is break-out star Chalamet who deserves the most praise here. The young actor, who we’ve seen in the likes of Interstellar and Men, Women and Children in the past, lights up the screen in every scene, and will both make your heart warm and ache in equal measure – especially during the climactic few scenes. Stuhlbarg is also nearing a career best here – and potentially a best supporting actor nod come early 2018 – as the likeable father of Elio who, in the last reel delivers perhaps the best monologue in any film we’ve seen this year. It’s almost comparable to the late, great Robin Williams’ wise ‘bench scene’ in Good Will Hunting twenty years ago – one which will have you reaching for those tissues if you haven’t managed to grab hold of them before.
It’s so hard to fault the picture. Obviously sharing themes with last year’s eventual Best Picture winner Moonlight, Call Me by Your Name is absolutely as good, and oh so much more. It’s difficult to find something in here for anyone to not to relate to – a meaningful, pure, romantic drama that focuses on a love that has no boundaries, the utterly raw and important character building qualities of life and the building of memories and experiences that should never be forgotten.
Pure cinematic perfection.
Call Me By Your Name was reviewed at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and will be released across the UK on 27th October, 2017.
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
TIFF 2017 REVIEW
Armie Hammer & Timothée Chalamet
Published on Sep 8, 2017
southendmd:
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Pure cinematic perfection.
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Wow!
Aloysius J. Gleek:
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More to come, I'm sure! :D
This is a passionate love story that actually manages to find room for the uncomfortably overwhelming emotions and honest reflections that allow the story to play as more than a fairy tale. It’s a film that will touch all those who know such feelings, no matter how different their experiences may have been.
http://dorkshelf.com/2017/09/06/tiff-2017-call-me-by-your-name-review/
TORONTO
INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
TIFF 2017 Review
Call Me by Your Name
It’s a sensuous and rapturous ode to first love that plays out through images
of postcard beauty and moments of almost embarrassing honesty.
by Phil Brown
September 6, 2017 | 3:34 pm
Sexual experimentation, academia, lounging, and peaches ... Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg and Armie Hammer in Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name is a coming of age tale of sexual experimentation, academia, lounging, and peaches that couldn’t be more specific in it’s origins. Yet, there’s something about the way that director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash ) captures and casts the flick that somehow elevates the material into something universal. This is a passionate love story that actually manages to find room for the uncomfortably overwhelming emotions and honest reflections that allow the story to play as more than a fairy tale. It’s a film that will touch all those who know such feelings, no matter how different their experiences may have been.
Timothée Chalamet stars as the prodigy son of an academic father (Michael Stuhlbarg) and loving mother (Amira Casar) who live a life of luxury, relaxation, and ridiculously sumptuous food in early 80s Italy. Every summer the Stuhlbarg hosts a grad student and this year it’s Armie Hammer, with all the dapper hunkiness that implies. Slowly Chalamet and Hammer do a lil’ flirtatious dance and fall for each other, but only after the boy makes his first moves with a girl. It’s a sensuous and rapturous ode to first love that plays out through images of postcard beauty and moments of almost embarrassing honesty. Throughout it all Guadagnino balances sumptuous cinematic style with delicate drama. Somehow neither side overwhelms the other.
That’s a more difficult balancing act to pull off than it seems, one that Guadagnino hasn’t quite achieved himself before now. In doing so, he reaches a new plateau as a filmmaking and feels like a vital voice in international cinema rather than a promising one. The performances are remarkable across the board and the script from James Ivory (best known for writing the stuffiest of British chamber dramas in the 90s) bounces along with impressively breezy naturalism. There are two scenes in particular that will sear their way into any viewer’s mind. One delightfully perverse moment with a peach designed for giggling gasps and the other a beautiful (and painful) monologue of remarkably sensitive fatherly advice. For a film to be daring or wise enough to contain and deserve either scene would make it a success, to have room for both is what makes Call Me by Your Name truly special.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
But Michael Stuhlbarg has the Scene, the one you can imagine being played as the Oscar clip at the ceremony in March—and the one any viewer will instantly recall when seeing Stuhlbarg’s name on a shortlist or "For Your Consideration" mailer.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/09/call-me-by-your-name-tiff-toronto-film-festival-michael-stuhlbarg
TIFF 2017
Don’t Overlook
Michael Stuhlbarg
in
Call Me by Your Name
The character actor has the least-flashy role in this Italy-set romance—
but his is the scene you’ll remember when you leave the theater.
by KATEY RICH
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 5:02 PM
If you’ve heard anything about Call Me by Your Name, which screened to a packed audience at the Toronto Film Festival this morning, it’s probably not about Michael Stuhlbarg. An intensely romantic and sexy story, starring chiseled-from-marble Armie Hammer and incandescently youthful Timothée Chalamet, it’s full of so many gorgeous, memorable moments—The lake! The piano! The peach!—that the man playing the bearded, amiable father could have slipped through the movie largely unnoticed.
But then he has his scene. Not the final scene in the movie, but it feels like it—featuring a monologue that, without spoiling anything, sums up the enormous emotion of the movie (depicted thus far mostly in images and action) in simple, loving, fatherly words. Other movies about youthful romance might use a flash-forward, or a character’s inner monologue, to put the whole thing into a broader context. Call Me by Your Name just needs Stuhlbarg’s words, delivered in such a straightforward way that you don’t realize the emotional wallop of the pack until the scene is over.
Stuhlbarg’s role up to that point is fairly small, as any parent’s might be in a story of a teenager falling in love. A professor living with his French wife in northern Italy on an estate rich in fruit trees and ponds and leisurely lunches, Stuhlbarg’s character could seem academic and remote. But he brings warmth to his briefest scenes, and an obvious affection for the son at the center of the story.
It’s a story of same-sex love, set in 1983, but Call Me by Your Name avoids so many doom-and-gloom tropes of the genre; Chalamet’s Elio is confused and out of place, but there’s never any sense of harm that would come to him by embracing his true feelings. That sense of safety comes from Stuhlbarg—and it not only gives Elio the confidence to express himself but also gives director Luca Guadagnino room to create a lush love story that’s about pain but only the kind achingly familiar to anyone who’s ever felt the heart’s absence.
That final scene makes Stuhlbarg’s essential role in the story clear—and it leaves the audience walking out of the theater thinking about him. Which could be the key to keeping Stuhlbarg in the conversation as the great machinery of awards season lumbers to life. He and Hammer will both be campaigned in the supporting categories, with Chalamet in lead, which puts Stuhlbarg at something of a disadvantage, since he has the smaller and far less flashy role. (At the center of the story, Hammer and Chalamet are both remarkable, and completely deserving of the full awards push they'll each receive as well.)
But Stuhlbarg has the Scene, the one you can imagine being played as the Oscar clip at the ceremony in March—and the one any viewer will instantly recall when seeing Stuhlbarg’s name on a shortlist or "For Your Consideration" mailer.
Supportive Father Figure is less of a hoary Academy trope than Supportive Wife, but it still has a strong history—think Christopher Plummer in Beginners, or Mahershala Ali just last year in Moonlight. Stuhlbarg also has an excellent fall ahead to boost his case, with roles in both Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water and Steven Spielberg’s The Post. It’s possible that Call Me by Your Name might not even be Stuhlbarg’s best performance of the year. But nearly a decade since his breakout role in A Serious Man, Stuhlbarg’s moment for Academy recognition seems to have arrived. And if Call Me by Your Name continues to be as well-received as it had been since its rapturous Sundance premiere, this movie may just be the one to get him over the finish line.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
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I got a copy of the korean translation of #callmebyyourname #cmbyn
with a beautiful illustration cover, and it's aesthetically so satisfying.
The title changed, and it can translate into "that year, the summer's guest."
and there's THE peach🍑🍑🍑 [in Elio's hand, see??] 😂😂
https://www.garow.me/media/1571539586949360017_4225893710
this kind of love and aspiration, @tchalamet @armiehammer
Elio and Oliver in the illustration cover look exactly alike @tchalamet and @armiehammer 😎😎,
which makes everything better and sweeter 🙌🙌
CALLMEBYYOURNAMEFAN by @erkinaken
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2017/08/01 10:40:58
#CMBYN #CallMeByYourName #Elio #Oliver #laterpeaches #🍑
#elio perlman #oliver ulliva
#andré aciman #armie hammer #timothée chalamet #luca guadagnino
#book #newbook #bookstagram #translation
#film #movie #sonyclassics #lgbt
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--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on August 20, 2017, 09:06:16 am ---
Ulliva, Ulliva, Ulliva ---it was Oliver calling me by his name
when he'd imitate it's transmogrified sound as spoken by Malfalda
and Anchise; but it'd also be me calling him by his name as well,
hoping he'd call me back to mine, which I'd speak for him to me,
and back to him: Elio, Elio, Elio.
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