Written as an older Elio's recollection of that time, the novel is remarkable in its ability to capture the way a first love blasts our perceptions - Elio spends long, sultry days willing Oliver to notice him, daring him to and rejecting him when he does (or does he?). The original Call Me By Your Name, a 2007 book by André Aciman, is the quintessential novel of interiority, concerned as it is with the unspoken signals that pass between Elio and Oliver as the latter comes to stay with Elio's family for a sun-scoured Northern Italian summer.
Straight audiences will mark this quietly miraculous difference too, of course - but will they feel its simple power with the startling intensity queers do? Will it seem to them, as it does to us, a kind of gift, unlooked-for (yet always looked-for), freely and fulsomely offered? Well, that's not true - a lot happens, but not the thing we expect: Astonishingly enough, they just. Onscreen, the two men passionately kiss, and we wait - for the screamed epithet to pierce the night, or for the police lights to flare to life, or, most likely, for the flurry of punches to come sailing out of the darkness. When we remember that Guadagnino's film is set in deeply Catholic Italy, in 1983, we start clenching our stomachs in sympathy, and mentally checking our watches, dreading the inevitable. We've seen it, and seen it, and we've come to accept it: The characters will get to find a few, furtive seconds of peace, but then the real world has to intrude. Queer folk in the audience, seeing this, will know what comes next. They are blithely happy, and drunk, and horny they forget to check the perimeter, they neglect to throw the necessary wary glances around them as they fall into each others' arms, and lips. Two men - in this case, soulful 17-year-old prodigy Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and disquietingly symmetrical 24-year-old graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer) - steal into an alley to make out. There is a scene near the end of Luca Guadagnino's breathless, besotted, achingly intimate - and just plain aching - Call Me By Your Name that starts like hundreds of others have, and do, and will, in cinematic depictions of same-sex attraction.Īfter midnight.
Timothée Chalamet stars as Elio in Call Me By Your Name.
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