Nominated for academy awards for Best Picture; Best Actor; and others.
Timothee Chalamet plays 17 yr old Elio, who lives with his parents in a villa on the coast of Italy. His father is an historian and a professor, and each summer, a teacher or graduate student spend six weeks with the family, receiving room and board in exchange for helping the professor with his correspondence and research.
Enter Armie Hammer, portraying 22 yr old Oliver, a college teacher, who is this year's helper.
Elio, who is already exploring his sexuality with a local girl, becomes fixated on Oliver during the first few weeks of his stay, and Oliver eventually succumbs to his advances.
Chalamet has been nominated for an Oscar as best actor, and definitely deserves it. For that matter, Armie Hammer, who is often underrated, is very good in his role.
Some reviewers seem to have become fixated on the older man/younger man theme, and/or the fact that they think the older man took advantage. But, they overlook the fact that a) the age of consent in Italy at the time (1983) was 14, and more importantly, b) It was Elio who relentlessly pursued Oliver.
For some reason, the movie was released late last year in limited release, and has only just gone into wide release, and even then, only in a small number of screens. We had to drive 65 miles to a nearby city to see it.
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