Director
Luca Gadagnino
Leading Actors/Actresses
Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer
Supporting Actors/Actresses
Amira Casar, Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel
Genre
Romance, Drama
Language
English, Italian, French
Awards
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: James Ivory
Date of Release
January 22, 2017
Producer
Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman
Setting and Context
Northern Italy, 1983
Narrator and Point of View
There is no narrator or set point of view, but we often follow Elio's perspective.
Tone and Mood
Dreamy, melancholic, lazy, romantic, erotic, bittersweet
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist is Elio, There is no straightforward antagonist, but in some ways, it is Oliver
Major Conflict
The major conflict for much of the film is the fact that Oliver and Elio do not know how to express their attraction and love for one another. At the end, the conflict evolves and becomes the fact that Oliver is getting married in spite of his affection for Elio.
Climax
The climax occurs when Elio sits with his father and his father tells him to embrace his affair and the heartbreak and happiness he feels about the affair.
Foreshadowing
The moment when Elio tells Oliver his feelings is foreshadowed by the story about the knight and the princess. Oliver's eventually marrying a woman is foreshadowed by his dancing with a woman in Rome.
Understatement
Elio tells Oliver that he is happy for him for getting married, but the viewer knows his feelings are much more complicated.
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
Allusions
Allusions to classical music, antiquity, poetry, philosophy, and film.
Paradox
Elio is accepted by his family for who he is, but because Oliver cannot accept himself, they are not able to be together.
Parallelism
Oliver and Elio are set in parallel, foils for one another, and they even experiment with, as the title suggests, calling one another by their own names.
