call me by your name what is it about
Call Me by Your Name (film) Call Me by Your Name (Italian: Chiamami col tuo nome) is a 2017 coming-of-age drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman. It is the final installment in Guadagnino's thematic Desire trilogy, following I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015). Set in Northern Italy in 1983, Call Me by Your Name chronicles the romantic relationship between Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a 17-year-old living in Italy, and his father's 24-year-old American assistant, Oliver (Armie Hammer). The film also stars Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, and Victoire Du Bois.
Call Me by Your Name (film) In the United States, the film began its limited run on 24 November 2017 at four theaters: The Paris Theater and Union Square Theatre in New York City, and the ArcLight Hollywood and Landmark Theater in Los Angeles.[126] The film made $404,874 in its opening weekendâ€”a per-theater average of $101,219.[127][128] It was the highest average of 2017, the biggest since that of La La Land the previous December,[129] and had the best per-screen opening for a gay romance film since Brokeback Mountain (2005).[127][130] In its second weekend, the film grossed $281,288,[131][132] with an "excellent" per-screen average of $70,320.[133][134] The film expanded to nine theaters in its third weekend, grossing $291,101 for a "solid" $32,345 per-theater average.[135] It earned $491,933 from 30 theaters in its fourth weekend, averaging $16,398.[99]