Netflix subscribers can see or rewatch the film that made Timothée Chalamet a real star who can now wear blockbusters like “Dune” by Denis Villeneuve.
In 2016, the general public discovered an actor, Timothée Chalamet, with the film that would earn him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor: the romance Call Me By Your Name.
Elio Perlman, 17, is vacationing in Italy at a historic villa owned by his family. He strolls flirting with his friend Marzia. His parents, very literary, gave him an excellent education. When Oliver, an American doctoral student, arrives in the villa, the two men will discover a reciprocal desire as powerful and ephemeral as the summer sun.
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Call Me By Your Name by Luca Guadagnino is adapted from the first novel by André Aciman transformed into a screenplay by James Ivory. Already planned for 2008 with other directors, the feature film took more than ten years to see the light of day.
Oliver is played by Armie Hammer (the actor has since been accused of rape and cannibalism and disappeared from the screens), but we can also see the always amazing Michael Stuhlbarg as Elio’s father and Amira Casar as his mother.
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Much less daring than André Aciman’s novel on which it is based, the film nonetheless met with success with 43 million dollars reported for an estimated 4 million budget. It propelled young Timothée Chalamet, 21 at the time of filming, to the rank of top Hollywood star.
Before actual filming began, Chalamet had prepared by spending five weeks practicing an hour and a half of Italian (his character’s native language), an hour and a half of piano, and an hour and a half of guitar daily. He also exercised three times a week. Although he had done six years of piano and one year of guitar before this film, the actor worked to progress until he reached Elio’s level of virtuosity.