Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017) by Akumajack — 02 Feb 2018

Call me by your name is a decent film and nothing more.

Chalamet's performance was perfect through the whole movie, the soundtrack was on point (Especially thanks to Sufjan Stevens' "Mystery of Love" and "Futile devices").

The settings, as an Italian, is beautiful and well portrayed.

The weak part is the plot and some characters.

First of all Armie Hammer is 42 and Chalamet is 23. In the movie Elio (Chalamet) is 17 so Oliver (Hammer) should be around 30 to 36 years old. That's some serious pedophilia over there and I couldn't get over it for the whole movie.

Is not romantic, is quite sick. There is not an antagonist in this movie besides time. They make a big deal about hiding their affair because it's an homosexual relationship and all but then EVERYONE seems to be okay with it. Elio's father later in the movie confesses to his sons that he had an affair with a friend (male) when he was younger and that he always knew about Elio and Oliver relationship.

So why hiding if apparently is okay for everyone if they are gay? Also, Elio is a jerk to his friend Marzia with whom he has sex multiple times just to dump her a couple of days later to be with Oliver. So Elio, although sympathetic, is the only "Bad" character of the movie. From a technical point of view this movie is incredible, great aesthetics and imagery, but the story is weak and meaningless.

Meaningless could summarize this film story perfectly in my opinion.