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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME The Mayor of London's Gala - BFI London Film Festival 2017
Call Me by Your Name is The Mayor of London's Gala film at the BFI London Film Festival 2017. We talked to the stars of the film, Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet and to director, Luca Guadagnino, about the making of the film.
In every way as languorous and seductive as its North Italian setting, Luca Guadagnino's (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash) adaptation of André Aciman's coming-of-age novel is a sun-kissed, cinematic ode to the ecstasy and exquisite pain of first love. Timothée Chalamet is riveting as Elio, a musically gifted 17-year-old whose idyllic summer break takes a tumultuous turn when Oliver (Armie Hammer) arrives to stay at the family palazzo. The physical embodiment of ancient Greco-Roman beauty, Oliver is an all-American doctoral student on a 6-week research trip working with Elio's father, an antiquities professor. While Oliver slips effortlessly into the heady rhythm of the Italian summer â€" al fresco dining, bicycle rides and midnight swims â€" Elio's casual flirtation with local girlfriend Marzia (Esther Garrel) is soon eclipsed by a more sensual, volatile attraction.