Photo Coverage: Armie Hammer & More Attend TIFF Press Call for CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
By: Walter McBride Sep. 14, 2017
Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet and more attended this week's press call at the Toronton International Film Festival. The film, from Sony Pictures Classics, hits theaters on November 24, 2017. Check out photos below!
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. The film stars Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhbarg, Amira Cesar, Esther Garrel. Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash) has fashioned André Aciman's 2007 novel of sexual awakening into a joyous romantic adventure. Set in the sun-kissed landscape of Lombardy, Northern Italy, and with a script by James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name is a note-perfect tale of forbidden love. It brings together Timothée Chalamet (also at the Festival in Hostiles) and Armie Hammer as the two protagonists whose summer in the countryside opens new doors for both of them.
Guadagnino's camera presides languidly over the rambling villa used as a vacation home by American professor Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his family. Each summer, the professor invites a doctoral student to visit and help with his research. When hunky 24-year-old Oliver (Hammer) shows up, Perlman's 17-year-old son, Elio (Chalamet) is initially cool and distant. After all, he has a beautiful girlfriend who takes up most of his emotional time. Cast inadvertently into playing the role of good host, squiring fellow American Oliver around town and country, Elio finds himself confounded by a growing physical attraction to the visitor. Their courtship is tentative and awkward, consisting of looks and glances, touches and caresses. Elio's parents look on, blissfully unaware of the heated passions that are boiling beneath the surface.
Call Me By Your Name is, above all, a kind of reverie amidst a golden summer of bike rides, swimming holes, and outdoor dinners. Its lush sensuality casts a very special spell that is impossible to resist.
Director Luca Guadagnino
Director Luca Guadagnino
Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer
Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer
Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer
Armie Hammer, Luca Guadagnino and Timothee Chalamet
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