WHO’S IN IT?
Timothée Chalamet (Interstellar), Armie Hammer (The Social Network), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man), Amira Casar (The Forbidden Room), Victoire Du Bois (Calm At Sea), Vanda Capriolo (film debut), Antonio Rimoldi (film debut), Peter Spears (Something’s Gotta Give)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash), director, producer; James Ivory (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries), writer, producer; Emilie Georges (Circles), Marco Morabito (I Am Love), Howard Rosenman (Father of the Bride), Peter Spears (film debut) and Rodrigo Teixeira (The Witch), producers; Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), cinematographer; Walter Fasano (Unlikely Revolutionaries), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Elio Perlman (Chalamet) is a precocious 17-year-old American-Italian boy who, whilst staying at his highly cultured family’s villa in northern Italy during the summer of 1983, strikes up a friendship with Oliver (Hammer), an American scholar who arrives to complete his doctorate under the tutelage of Elio’s professor father (Stuhlbarg). As the sun-drenched summer months go by, Elio and Oliver find themselves experiencing an awakening desire for one another, one that is destined to change their lives forever…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Already receiving praise and plaudits left and right since its festival debut earlier this year, director Luca Guadagnino’s latest is an odyssey of love and passion in a beautiful part of the world.
