Call Me By Your Name (film)

Everyone lusting after Armie Hammer is the only realistic thing about this film!

OK, I'm going to risk asking this now: did any female members of this board like this film at all? And if so, how much?

Plus, assuming I'm not going to be shot down for implying that it's for chaps only, I'd ask the same about God's Own Country. As I really try to appreciate them, but honestly, these films have just baffled, bemused and bored me; I simply cannot see their appeal to the general audience.

Me and my (female) friend really enjoyed it - we watched it in the middle of a week of disease, death, racism and abuse at the London Film Festival, so a lovely romantic fantasy was a wonderful tonic.

I thought God's Own Country was a better film, there just seemed to be more emotional resonance to it. My friend hasn't seen that one yet.

Hello, I'm a woman.

I remember you asking this same question about Dunkirk. I think perhaps you ought to accept that there's no such thing as a film just for men or just for women. I wasn't as enthused about God's Own Country but I did enjoy it too.

For what its worth this film has won or placed as runner-up in audience awards in various film festivals (rare for LGBT films) so there clearly is a general audience appeal.

Oh you definitely don’t want to see Beach Rats showgirl - for me it is clearly the weakest of the three of them, in fact having seen it at the LFF I wasn’t even sure it warranted a cinema release rather than going straight to video. For me GOC was definitely the strongest of the three and I enjoyed it in a way I didn’t enjoy CMBYN in that I found the central character believable and moving.

I didn’t see In Between, but I’ll keep an eye out for it based on your comments.

I am a woman in my mid 50s and I loved both Call Me By Your Name and God's Own Country (and reported as such on this board). I think what I loved about Call Me By Your Name was that it had a central teenage figure and parent's trying to do their best in bringing him up (my own children are 20,18 and 16) and of course the sheer beauty of the movie. In God's Own Country I was very taken with the hope at the centre of a bleak story. I also enjoyed seeing actors in the older roles whose careers I had followed (in the case of Ian Hart almost grown up with as we are virtually the same age). And I have family experience of just how hard it can be to eek out a living by farming.

I suppose what I am trying to say is that films appeal to different people for different reasons. My 16 year old daughter also enjoyed Call Me By Your Name because of Elio's intensity and love of music. Oh and both my teens who saw it are big Sufjan Stevens fans so the trailer appealed to them straight away.

Very interesting to read all your varied comments, jek , kathryn and caiaphas, and you all make valid points about target markets and individual taste. I'm clearly in the same camp as @caiaphas and though sorry to hear of another person not enjoying this film, I am quite relieved at last not to be the one and only dissenter.

In particular on the point of the central relationship, I had read a review in which the writer commented on his disquiet at the gap not only in age between Elio and Oliver - and I also thought Armie H too old to play 24 - but size and build, which he felt made it look uncomfortably like grooming. I'm not suggesting it was or that I had the same impression but I could see what he meant.

Yeah, I believe they were 20 and 29 when they filmed it and of course it's not rare at all in Hollywood to play 5 years younger or older than your actual age. I can't bring myself to feel uncomfortable about two fully grown adults acting as love interests, even if they do have different body types. I mean, don't we see that thing with straight romances all the time? The skinny, small girls and the muscly, hunky men. When Jennifer Lawrence was Chalamet's age she was playing the love interest of 36-year-old Bradley Cooper. Hammer is 6 foot 5 I believe too, which means Chalamet must actually be pretty tall even if he looks significantly smaller. But I think it all adds to the aesthetic. I'm 24 and most men my age would not create such an impact upon arrival as Oliver does. He needs to look like some kind of untouchable marble statue in order to understand why Elio gets in such a tizzy over him. The average 24-year-old - even the good looking ones - are just not going to do that. If you look up photos of Hammer when he was in The Social Network and he was 24, he still looks attractive and even still looks older than 24 but he just does not look like the kind of guy that would make a 17-year-old have their sexual and romantic awakening.

Sorry to come to this thread late but I caught this about two weeks ago and after reading everyone's comments thought I'd passion my comments too.

Firstly, I don't (in any way) proclaim to be as eloquint as snute.

I actually really enjoyed it.

I thought everyone from the two leads, the actors playing the parents and the minor characters were all excellent. I have never seen Arnie Hammer in anything do for me he as a fresh as face and the younger guy Oliver.

So of the things that really stood out for me were how easily they effortlessly switched from English, to French and then Italian.

The parents were both smoking. How long has it been since we're seen that on screen?

Also the use of light. There was a scene where Oliver is lying shirtless on the bed with the light across his body.

It actually made me want to lye down in the grass under a tree near a brook shaded from the sunlight and read a good book.

Laters!

Saw this today and loved it. It deserves the hype and praise it has gotten. The two leads are fantastic, as are the parental characters. It moved me to tears with the Dad's monologue and the farewell scene. I thought it was funny, it was shot beautifully, and those scenes that on paper sound so shocking, were handled with care and worked perfectly. I almost cant wait to see it again.

I've read alot of predictions that it could be a nominee for Best Picture, and it totally would be worthy. And the lead guy also seems to be getting a fair bit of hype to be nominated too, again, totally deserved, he was fantastic!

I think the three main males should be nominated at the very least. And it deserves a Director, Cinematography and Picture nom at the lesst. It could well win Best Picture, its just that good. And I have read predictions for that to happen.

I see that Armie Hammer has done the audio book for the novel.