FILM 1744: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
TRIVIA: Timothée Chalamet learned
to speak Italian and to play the piano for the role of Elio.
On its premiere night, Call Me By
Your Name (2017) received a ten-minute standing ovation, which was the longest
standing ovation ever at the New York Film Festival.
The entire film (including the
opening credits) was shot with a single 35mm lens.
There was only one rehearsal before
shooting. In multiple interviews, Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer said that
director Luca Guadagnino asked them one day to come outside to do a rehearsal
in the backyard of the villa. They walked to a patch of grass and flipped their
scripts to a randomly selected scene to practice. When they opened the script,
the page only read, "Elio and Oliver roll around in the grass making
out." Chalamet and Hammer looked at each other and said, "Alright,
let's go!" Just seconds into the making out scene, however, Guadagnino
stepped in and directed them to act more "passionately." So they
started making out and continued to do so, and no one told them to stop.
Eventually, the two actors stopped, looked around and realized Guadagnino had
just walked away, leaving them rolling around in the grass. This was their only
rehearsal.
Despite various sexual scenes in
the film, Armie Hammer stated in an interview that the most uncomfortable he
ever felt during filming was when he was filming the dance scenes.
In the book, Elio is 17 years old
and Oliver is 24. Timothée Chalamet was 20 years old when the film was
shot, while Armie Hammer was 29. The film is set in Italy, and the
age of consent in the country is 14.
The film is dedicated to actor Bill
Paxton, who died in February 2017. Brian Swardson, the husband of one of the
film's producers, Peter Spears, was Bill Paxton's best friend and agent. He is
also the agent for Timothée Chalamet. Paxton visited the set in Italy and
became friends with director Luca Guadagnino. Guadagnino decided to honor
Paxton by dedicating the film to him.
Based on the book "Call me by
your name" written by André Aciman, the author himself appears in the
movie as Mounir.
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