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I know you guys were waiting for this one.. :)

Honestly such a beautiful film in how it is made and the acting performances, a different type of film that I usually watch but none the less a movie I am glad I watched

Would love to hear your thoughts on the movie now I have seen it as I feel there is a lot between the lines in scenes and a lot of deeper meaning with things that may have gone over my head so please do indulge me in the comments :)

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Alex Montrose

Having read the book first, Elio actually fell for Oliver from day one. He affected indifference in order to throw people off the scent. And when Oliver touched him that first time, he stepped away because he felt like he was going to faint. Ironically, the Audiobook is narrated by Armie Hammer, which means we get to experience him essentially falling in love with himself.

Frank Jordan

I enjoyed this film but I don’t think I would ever watch it again. The acting by Timothée Chalamet was very naturalistic. There aren’t many films that explore unhappy endings so well. Your comments at the end were spot on I think- I really enjoyed your reactions. Moonlight is a superior film in the same style - a character study - but with more of a narrative structure

Kelli E.

The moment when Elio’s attitude changes after the first night they spent together, I’ve always attributed to two things. 1. He knows they aren’t going to just walk out the door and be able to be the same as they are when their alone and 2. He knows Oliver is leaving soon as the end of summer is approaching. FYI, it’s my understanding than Oliver is supposed to be a graduate student so maybe 24-25, I think the actor is just older which so it’s hard to distinguish!

Khaled Badr

Loved the movie and your reaction 😍

Mark Wood

Back at this time, you wouldn't generally be very open and specific about your sexuality. Subtext was a huge amount of how gay and bisexuals read attraction from others. While the setting they are in would be more open about general sexuality, US would have been fairly conservative.

Mark Wood

Most films gloss over the small interactions about attraction, this film (and many foreign language films) have learned to really dial into the real character moments that show relationships.

Kameron Y

The word that always comes to mind when I watch this movie is Atmospheric. There's not much plot. Almost everything is said in the subtext. Nothing is really happening, but somehow you become so immersed and so invested.

Kameron Y

Btw, the ages are 17 and 24. If you didn't catch it, Oliver is a grad student working with Elio's father, a professor. They're both of legal age for the setting, but since the legal age is 18 in the US, people found it distasteful. The actors were 20 and 30, so the gap looks a little bigger.

Mark Wood

When this was written in England for example 18 was legal age to engage in same sex relations, versus 16 for straight). While in the US in most parts of the US it was still a criminal offense (though rarely enforced). But the US doesn't have a country wide age of consent. Its generally 16-18 depending on what state you are in. The author was in New York, where 17 was legal age. While Italy it was (and might still be) 14.

Samuel

I love this movie so much, the atmosphere in it is incredible. Couldn't keep in a snicker as you called him Elio Chalamet - google the name at your own risk to understand why xD A few things that may be nice to know: The movie was actually shot in chronological order using the same lens, which gives it a really coherent feeling all the way through, very organic. Timothée Chalamet went to Italy six weeks before shooting began where he spent time learning the piano, guitar and Italian - gives you an idea of his huge talent and devotion! A couple of weeks before shooting began, Armie Hammer joined up with him, first time they met, and they essentially did what Elio and Oliver do in the movie (minus the romance xD) so swimming, biking around the town and getting to know each other. - Also, the first scene they rehearsed was the makeout scene in the grass, they've told the story during various interviews and it is hilarious - case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0rXPrnC_Ps The house was actually owned by Luca Guadanigno (the director) and was, if I remember correctly, his childhood home, but don't quote me on that :) The scene where Elio's dad and Oliver talk about the linguistic origins of apricot is actually Elio's dad testing Oliver to see if he knows his stuff, hence the "flying colors", as in Oliver passed his little test with flying colors :) And Elio smirking "he does this every year" ^^ Oliver is 24 and Elio is, as he says, 17. I think the controversy about it has been purely in America, seeing as 17 is not legal over there, where as Europe has more varying legal ages - pretty sure Italy is the same as Denmark where I'm from, which is 15 (legal in the sense that you can have sex anyway, 16 you can drink/smoke, 18 you're a fully fledged adult) And 7 years age difference really isn't that much. It's very much the atmosphere and mood that drives the movie, a lot of things are unspoken, it really is as if you're there in Italy with them and just watching them fall in love. I also like how it's a story about two people falling in love, and it just happens to be two guys, could have just as easily been a guy and a girl or two girls, cos it's just about the connection between them, there's not politics or gender discussion that's being forced on us which is pretty rare for movies featuring a gay love story as the main story. It is, as you also said, refreshing. I love the speech by the dad at the end, it's so heartwarming and hits right in the feels. Would be cool if you upload the reaction to YT as well and possibly taking some of the comments here on Patreon into you comments at the end of it :)

Mairead
>>69229074

yeah, in sweden it's 15. As a US peep living in europe for almost 8 yrs, it's easy to see the huge difference on attitudes towards sex between the two countries.

Brandon

As great as the movie is the book is so much better. There’s more detail in the book about the emotions Elio is experiencing

Glenn Van Pestel

I love CMBYN so much. It’s such a beautiful film both in the way it was written and the way it was shot. Every frame is art, as you’ve said. It’s beauty in simplicity. And damn Timothée Chalamet for making me cry time and time again. The acting in this film is natural, so good.

Mark Wood
>>69221199

I love Moonlight its a spectacular film, but I think its narrative structure is why I enjoy this just slightly more.

Princess Mia

my 9th time watching this movie. its so incredibly close to my heart and with the dialogue and cinematography it feels like you're watching in on somebody's life rather than a film.

Alex

God that ending is devastating

A Vicarious View

Got my Charcuterie board and a glass of wine. I'm ready! Love this movie.

Mark Wood
>>69226460

You have two of the three primary reasons for his behavior. Absolutely he knows that Oliver is leaving and very shortly, so a self defense to try and prevent himself from being hit so hard when it happens (basically the beginning stages of what his father later tells him not to do). And yeah this is, I think 1983. While attitudes about sex in Italy are for more open for heterosexual activity (especially compared to what Oliver would have experienced in the US), but actively seeking out a gay relationship (as opposed to two boys just fooling around because well their horny and experimenting) is different. And while his family seems fairly open minded, its still has to be in your mind. And the third (which might even by the 2nd most important), when you are with some one far more experienced then you are (regardless of the age), you can be very guarded about letting that person see how much those experiences and feelings have impacted you. In Elio's eyes Oliver has to be such an experienced travelled person, and he's a fumbling in t he dark teenager. You're so self conscious of everything you do. Hell its bad enough when you are two inexperienced persons being together for the first time. This is reinforced in the fruit scene. The idea that Oliver figured out what he had done. He didn't see Oliver tasting and wanting to eat the fruit as a sign of Olivers attraction to him, but as a mockery. He was utterly embarrassed by not only what he did, but having it be so visually noticed by Oliver.

Dónde está la biblioteca

Food for Thought: Legit, I know a man that is 71 who is extending expressions of romantic interest to a guy who is 19 and who isn't sure if he is gay. Both are legal age but I'm not hanging my hat on that.

Dónde está la biblioteca

I saw my first art house movie in college and it opened my eyes to a whole new thing I didn't know existed. It was exciting. I started watching more and that became a gateway to film noir and early experimental films. It all blew my mind. People have their own reactions to films like this art film, depending on where we are in our lives and our own life experiences as we grow. A beautiful thing.

Styx

As a french/arabic speaker we always switch between the 3 languages. Quite common actually.

Knights Who Say Sledge

This is my 6th time watching the film thru and every single time I see something new in the beautifully subtle, awkward, natural exchanges between people in it. The performances and the direction are as good as it gets in this movie. I feel differently at the end of the film every time. You mention feeling empty and I very much did my first time watching the movie as well. To put some things possibly in perspective for the era being depicted and why the two of them played their attraction to one another so uncertainly in the first half of the film... Elio is depicted as 17 in 1983, I turned 17 in 1991 and had only discovered gay people existed in the world in 1989 (when I was 15). So, it cannot be overstated how completely gay people were not on tv, were not in the news, were not discussed, were not seen... so it is genuinely risky for them to feel each other out verbally as they get to know one another. To say nothing of the fact that Oliver is Elo's dad's masters student - which makes the dynamic tricky to navigate for both parties. And Oliver is tentative, I think, in part because he doesn't want to cause problems for another young man, who is notably younger than him, who hasn't sorted himself out as well. It's a fraught situation. I hope those details maybe put the... messiness of their exchanges at the beginning maybe in a little more context. Additionally, Elio's moodiness is - I think - partly because he is still sorting his orientation out, partly because he is young and being young is emotionally topsy turvy, and partly because he is falling in love with someone who will be gone in a relatively short period of time. I think there's a lot of ways you can read this film, but - for me - that's what I see in Elio and his sort of being all over the place emotionally in the movie. The last shot always breaks my heart - Mr. Chalamet gives an award winning performance throughout, but he slam dunks that ending right through the audience's chest. I don't know about anyone else's early, young romance - but mine were awkward, intense, confusing, and train rides to heartache. Like Elio's dad indicates though, beautiful and special heartache though. And this film captures "young love" more true to my experience of humanity than any other film I have ever seen. Oliver's on and off again relationship with a woman, which we don't know about until the end, is - I think - also very indicative of the era. Not that that doesn't happen now, but a young man of Oliver's age feeling the need to settle down and leave the feelings he had for Elio behind him was more common than not in the early 80s. Especially since Oliver indicates on the phone that his family is nothing like Elio's enlightened and unconditionally loving family. In truth, both character's orientations is up for debate between audience members - you can read either as gay or bisexual or sexually fluid. But I always get the sense, personally, that Elio is coming into an understand that he is gay while - personally - I think Oliver thinks that's not really an option for himself at this point in his life and the marriage is about him trying to put this "behind" him. Feeling something so real for Elio, I think, when he returned home may have prompted him to police himself and marry his on again off again girlfriend because it's what's expected of him but also, possibly, because he thinks it will somehow magically cause him to become the person he understands he is expected to be. Elio has a very different life, a very different family and... he has the support and freedom to not need to go forward trying to make himself someone other than who he is. It is, for me, a story about young men who find their hearts in one another but one is not in a life where he can yet allow himself to fully embrace that in the long term, while the other - Elio - is living a life where he could do just that. Starcrossed lovers are only starcrossed, after all, if something in their lives keeps their love apart. Sorry for waxing rhapsodic but this film captures something beautiful and painful about young love so acutely that it prompts me to meditate upon those emotions and scenarios.

Lee David Russell

Very sweet reaction, Seb. Loved your thoughts on the film and you were spot on with a lot of your observations. It's not a plot driven movie, but a study of characters, coming of age, discovering sexuality and first love. I'd forgotten just how beautiful and heartbreaking the film was -- the acting, the cinematography, scenery, music, everything. The dad's speech at the end leaves me devastated every time. You summed it up perfectly when you said you were sad it was over but glad it happened.

Knights Who Say Sledge

Ooh - also - if you haven't yet in your life, you should definitely watch 'Beautiful Thing' as an eventual follow up to this. A film from twenty plus years ago that really travels down a similar romantic path but in a very different context with very different results.

Knights Who Say Sledge
>>69228459

Yeah, I find most of my fellow Americans are totally unaware that - in this film - both characters are of age. The 17 thing makes them think this is a statutory thing... so, because in the US 18 is the age of consent, they think it is EVERYWHERE as a result. People feel many ways about this film - and fair enough - but it's a misunderstanding to think either of them is being depicted as a minor at all.

A Vicarious View

I came out at 16 but have mostly been with men that are deeply closeted and/or bisexual so I get all of the unspoken subtext that this movie does so well. When you can't be open with someone it all gets relegated to simple glances, innuendos, the brush of a shoulder, your foot grazing theirs under a table. When Elio got a bloody nose, it was because Oliver was playing footsie with him and it made his heart race and his blood pressure go up. It can all be very subtle until it suddenly isn't. I also understood that troubled glance the next morning after they slept together...When he wakes up and the mood shifts. Suddenly there is melancholic self doubt. "Did I do the right thing? Does he still feel the same way? Is he having second thoughts? Is last night all this will ever be? Are we still even friends?" I've experienced it enough times that I really felt that look in Oliver's eyes. *sigh Great reaction, btw. Glad you enjoyed the movie. 😊

Nate Jenkins

Great reaction! This is one of my favorite films, I’m glad you enjoyed it as well. One thing I will say is that I would strongly recommend you read the book that the movie is based off (also titled “Call Me By Your Name”). I watched the movie first and then came across the book and I can honestly say the book put a lot of the scenes in the movie in perspective for me and help me better understand Eilo’s character. Also there is a sequel book called “Find Me” that continues Oliver and Eilo’s story which is also a good read.

Dani

this movie is so overrated.

David Peters

i love this movie. it always gives me a very comfortable feeling whenever i watch it. kinda feels like i`m there in a way.

Cameron Evans

i subscribed to the patreon because of this and it is one of my all time favorite films. a movie you just will never experience like this again.

Gambit

Loved the reaction! I read the book and think you should read it or listen to the Audiobook. Armie Hammer (the guy the plays oliver) reads it and it gives you so much more insight to why Elio acted the way the way he did. He was doubting his feelings and having mixed feelings for Oliver. Also THIS MOVIE ONLY COVERS HALF THE BOOK. so if you wanted to know more beyond Oliver's marriage proposal you should read it! Hope you consider it! xoxo Jensen

Clayton Bockman

Loved rewatching this beautiful movie with Seb 🥰

Javier

Been meaning to watch this since last year and totally forgot about it. By chance it came to mind and looked for it and here it is! Thank you Seb for bringing it to your Patreon! Really had forgotten so many scenes in this movie. Little interactions and subtle glances. Certainly got me emotional thinking of a couple of people in my life that both I passed by and let go, and others I was able to share some time with. Always the question about the Prince, does he say something or not. That part opened up Elio and Olivers back and forth, with the subtext of both trying to figure each other out. The last part of this movie had me crying, from them letting each other go, to the dad's speech. That final take with Elio looking at us, going through all the emotions. You could see in his face the sadness, then anger and towards the end even a little smirk all through the tears. I would say even better on the second watch, and I cant wait to see it many more times. Just gorgeous in every way.

Joseph B.

Yes, certain scenes get more understandable each time I've watched it. This was my 4th time seeing the movie but the first time actually watching along with someone, thanks! And your reactions were great, not too much to interfere or distract and not too little.