Call Me by Your Name: Book vs. Movie
Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 film Call Me by Your Name is adapted from André Aciman’s 2007 novel. During a summer in Italy, Elio’s fascination with a visiting scholar develops into a relationship.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- André Aciman
- Year
- 2007
- Pages
- 256Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 7 hr 48 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Armie Hammer
Elio recalls the summer when Oliver, an American scholar, stays with his family on the Italian Riviera. Reading desire or indifference into every small exchange, he struggles to reveal his attraction without risking humiliation, while the approaching end of Oliver’s visit makes the possibility of a relationship increasingly urgent.
- Director
- Luca Guadagnino
- Writer
- James Ivory
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 2 hr 12 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg
- Genre
- coming-of-age, Drama, LGBTQ-related, Romance, romantic drama
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Seventeen-year-old Elio spends the summer of 1983 reading, playing music, and flirting near his family’s northern Italian villa. The arrival of Oliver, a graduate student assisting his father, unsettles that routine, and their cautious exchanges develop into an intimacy shaped by the knowledge that Oliver’s visit will soon end.
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