Call Me By Your Name (2017)

BOOK TO SCREEN CLUB

This quarterly book club will meet on the fourth Thursday of the chosen month. Starting at 6 pm, a half-hour discussion about the book will take place at the Colonial Theatre before the film screening.  After, there will be a short discussion to compare the two.

All book group participants will purchase a movie ticket for the film that will be showing at the Colonial Theatre. The book group is free to join, and all are welcome! Books are available for purchase at Reads & Company with a 20% discount.

SYNOPSIS

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It’s the summer of 1983 in northern Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old young man, spends his days in his family’s 17th-century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio’s sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American college graduate student working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.