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Best Picture Birb- Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name
Starring: Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
US Release Date: November 24, 2017
Most Recent Viewing: March 3, 2018
Image Credit: movieposter.com

 Nominated for four Academy Awards (including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture), Call Me by Your Name is directed by Luca Guadagnino, and is based on the novel by Andrée Acimen. 

 Set in Northern Italy in the Summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio (Best Actor nominee Timothée Chalamet) spends his days transcribing music and hanging out with his friends and family (Michael Stuhlbarg and Amira Casar playing Elio's parents). When doctoral student Oliver (Armie Hammer) comes to work with Elio's father, the relationship between Oliver and Elio goes from curiosity to wonder to love in the matter on months. 

 This is a beautiful film that is as warm and raw as it is visually stunning. Everyone has a story of their first love, and sometimes it is more complicated than others. You really feel for Elio as he discovers his feelings for Oliver and what to do and how to handle them. Without going into major plot points, the last fifteen minutes of the film will have you reaching for the kleenexes, and Stuhlbarg's speech should have garnered him more award interest than he received. This is a movie about love, in whatever shape and form it may appear, and we need more stories like this told in cinema. 

 Call Me by Your Name is rated R for sexual content/nudity and language. What are your thoughts? Follow me at twitter.com/moviebirb and facebook.com/moviebirb and let me know. 

 -birb

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