Ever since it’s debut early this year at the Sundance Film Festival, this film has become a surefire awards contender in the vein of past award winners Carol and Moonlight. Directed by Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash, I Am Love) and based on a 2007 book of the same name by André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name is set in the Italian region of Lombardy during the early 1980s and follows young Elio (breakout Timothée Chalamet), on the cusp of college and the child of two brainy aesthetes. During the summer we meet Elio, he finds himself bewitched by Oliver (Armie Hammer), a strapping American student who has come to assist Elio’s professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg) for several weeks. After watching the trailer at least, the buzz is real as this looks to be a beautiful love story, featuring great performances all around. Expect the film to be released near the end of the year, just in time for awards season.
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