![]() ![]() It is not until around the film’s midpoint that the lovers finally kiss. The film is generous in allowing the relationship between its two protagonists to develop imbued with lingering stares, subtle touches, and an overwhelming sense of first-love nervousness. ![]() He’s unapologetically bold in every physical manner yet impossible to read. ![]() ![]() Oliver, an exuberant, brash vision of rugged masculinity is frustratingly enigmatic to the introspective Elio. That is until his indifference is interrupted by the arrival of Oliver (Armie Hammer), a handsome American student who is set to study under the wing of Elio’s professor father for the next six weeks. The languid teenager drifts through his holidays alone, sometimes socialising with friends or his affectionate parents, but primarily keeping to his own devices. Set against the backdrop of the Italian countryside in 1983, seventeen-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is spending his summer with his parents in their tranquil villa, reading books, transcribing music, swimming in the lake, and waiting for summer to be over. ![]()
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