Call Me By Your Name Film Analysis

Directed by Luca Guadagnino and screenwriter James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name is a coming-of-age drama film based on the 2007 novel of the same name by American writer André Aciman. CMBYN by Guadagnino stares Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet as Oliver and Elio. Set in Northern Italy, it relates the intimate relationship between a seventeen-years-old American-Italian Jewish boy, Elio Perlman and Oliver, a visiting American Jewish scholar who meet because Oliver has come to help Elio's father as a research assistant, and they spent a summer, becoming closer and closer and learn things about themselves, they never knew. Adaptation is a tricky process. Indeed, books and films do not face same challenges but the main duty is to honour the original material. L.Guadagnino and James Ivory do not respect the book’s framing layout, as a matter of fact they take the risk of replacing boring narration with images, movement or sound, with silence, sometimes. Their choices indicate an ambitious engagement with Aciman’s words. The end result is an impressive fulfilment. Guadagnino does not copy but also he does not reject the book on which his film is based on, but on the contrary he enhances it. Thus, in this analysis, we are going to focus on screen adaptation and see if the film sticks close to Aciman's novel CMBYN.

The movie emphasizes the queerness theme of the book, the summer romance and how short time is, but I believethe the book was better in that his strength is that it offered us an insider's intimate view of Elio which was lacking on the