Tapped out on iPhone at 8:45 pm from Park City’s Eccles tent: “Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name is an instant classic — a wonderfully sensual, delightful, superbly composed love story. Delicate, attuned, succulent, aromatic — one of the finest romantic dream-trip films ever — a movie about all-too-brief emotional connections, erotic bliss, love, obsession and inevitable loss.
![](/images/column/jan17/callmeduo.jpg)
Timothee Chalumet (l.), Armie Hammer (r.) in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name — an instant classic and likely 2018 Best Picture contender.
Exquisitely done, perfectly acted (Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalumet, Michael Stuhlbarg) and delivered with just the right degree of subtlety — the masterful Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash, I Am Love) blended with a mixture of Bernardo Bertolucci, Luchino Visconti and Eric Rohmer within a laid-back, highly refined atmosphere that’s 85% Italian, 15% American.
This will almost surely turn out to be the best film of Sundance ‘17 — definitely the most vividly realized, open-hearted gay romantic film since Brokeback Mountain — except it’s not so much ‘gay’ as alive and rich and full of flavor — a sun-dappled celebration of all things sensual, musical, architectural, natural, genital, etc.”
![](/images/column/jan17/callmequartet.jpg)
(l. to r,) Arie Hammer, Luca Guadagnino, Timothee Chalumet, Sony Pictures Classics honcho Michael Barker prior to Sunday night’s screening at Park City’s Eccles theatre.
![](https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/wp-content/themes/amory/patreon-banner.jpg)