Call Me by Your Name (2017)

Film

Meta takes7

Figures

Locations

The natural landscape of Lombardy (bike paths, rivers, fields) → The Time-Space Crucible
The film's idyllic 1983 setting

Form & technique

Use of Sufjan Stevens' song "Visions of Gideon" over the final shot of Elio crying → Anempathetic Sound
The scene where Elio masturbates with a peach → The Excess of Jouissance
The scene where Anella Perlman reads from the Heptaméron → The Cinematic Echo Chamber

Tropes

Timothée Chalamet's performance as Elio Perlman → The Smile Tax
The exchange of looks between Elio and Oliver, particularly at the Piave war memorial
The film's textured cinematography (close-ups on skin, sweat, fruit, water) → Haptic Visuality
The film's ending (omitting the novel's 20-year epilogue)
The discovery of the Greco-Roman statue from the lake
The final monologue delivered by Mr. Perlman to Elio
The film’s affluent, intellectual, and apolitical bubble → The Toxic Carrot