8 | / 10 |
Users | 5.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Summer of 1983, Northern Italy. An American-Italian is enamored by an American student who comes to study and live with his family. Together they share an unforgettable summer full of music, food, and romance that will forever change them.
Starring: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther GarrelDrama | 100% |
Romance | 28% |
Coming of age | 27% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Portuguese: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
English, English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Thai
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Digital copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 4.5 | |
Video | 5.0 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Call Me By Your Name may encompass certain highlight points that point to a sweetness and tenderness of coming-of-age romance, but the movie is instead about the realities of love won and lost and an evolving physiology and the mental capacity to process it. "I know nothing," the film's lead character, Elio, says at one point after rattling off World War I trivia as if he were a museum curator or college professor. As the film explores the friendly and ultimately romantic relationship shared between a twenty-something man and a teenage boy, it takes a serious look at internal pain and strife beyond the immediate joys of their slow-build and ultimately short-lived whirlwind romance. Theirs is not a serious relationship but rather a fling with long-lasting repercussions on the soul, particularly for the young, impressionable, hormonal teenage Elio who is prone to (subtle and often inward) emotional swings and swirling, confusing responses to his body's wants and his soul's desires. The film transcends the physical aspect of the relationship -- including the age of the teenager -- and focuses, ultimately, on the rather dangerous precipice onto which it emotionally perches him. Directed by Luca Guadagnino (who is directing the upcoming remake of the classic Dario Argento film Suspiria) and based on the book of the same name by André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name was nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for young Timothée Chalamet.
Call Me by Your Name was shot on 35mm film. Sony's 1080p presentation bears the fruit of the film format, presenting with an accentuating, nicely rendered grain structure through which only a few shots see it increase in intensity or appear snowy. This is an exemplary image in every way. It's very stable, organically defined, and capable of presenting the complex detailing throughout the film with consistently striking ease. Old brick walls and walks, grasses and weeds, general skin textures, and clothing details are consistently rich in complexity. The film's Blu-ray transfer boasts a beautiful color palette, one that is softly vibrant in presentation of natural greens and period attire. Sun-soaked scenes fare best, but darker and nighttime shots hold firm with perfect black levels and complimentary, accentuating shadow detail. Skin tones appear intimate and accurate as well. This is a top-flight transfer and an aching reminder of film's textural superiority, even over today's top-end digital productions.
Call Me by Your Name calls out by way of a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The track delivers crisply defined support elements, like a ringing dinner bell, in addition to richly realized environmental atmospherics, including chirping birds, light winds, rolling waves, and welcoming, location-defining din in a cafe near film's start. Add some enjoyable bursts of heightened activity, including dense rain and deep thunder in chapter six, and the track proves capable of handling its every core element with commendable ease and enriching, scene-shaping and mood-enhancing clarity. The track further enjoys wonderful musical reproduction with superb definition and space across the stage, though it's mostly front heavy, leaving the surrounds to handle, more prominently, those aforementioned support elements. Still, musical definition, particularly piano keystrokes, plays fluidly and with impressively realistic detail. Dialogue, mostly English with some scattered, subtitled French and Italian, presents, like everything else, with perfectly prioritized, positioned, and detailed cadence.
Call Me by Your Name contains a commentary and a few featurettes. A Movies Anywhere digital copy code is included with purchase.
With Call Me by Your Name, potential audiences must tread carefully. The film pushes boundaries and asks its audience to accept not simply a homosexual romance but rather a tale involving a teenage boy and a man a few years older than he. It's presented in an impeccably performed and gorgeously crafted framework that deals not exclusively with bodily responses to love and lust but also, and more critical to the story, the lead character's evolving essence as a maturing young man seeking his place in the world. But in a time when attention has been called to sexual deviance in Hollywood, it's a film that cannot help but exist in a harsh spotlight. It's extraordinarily well done from a technical perspective as well as an emotional one, but prospective audiences will have to decide for themselves if the story's central plot line is for them. Sony's Blu-ray is fantastic, presenting flawless video and audio alongside a healthy allotment of quality bonus content. Cautiously recommended.
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