History Film / CallMeByYourName

* SafetyInIndifference: Eliot's father warns him that every failed relationship will make it harder to fully engage in the next one.

* BiTheWay: Both Elio and Oliver are attracted to men and women.

* EroticEating: The infamous peach scene. Elio essentially [[spoiler:ejaculates inside a peach, which Oliver later offers to eat]].

Set in Northern UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} during the [[UsefulNotes/TheEighties 1980s]], Elio (Creator/TimotheeChalamet) is an average teenage boy expecting to spend another summer with an unknown American graduate student coming to work with his father, a professor (Michael Stuhlbarg).

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* BiTheWay: Despite their attraction to each other, Elio and Oliver both admire and sleep with women.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Mr. Perlman's appreciation for the buff statues that he studies could be a hint that he is attracted to men.
*** Also his sensitivity to calling the visiting gay couple 'Sonny and Cher.'

After the release of the film, [[http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/director-luca-guadagnino-talks-call-me-by-your-name-sequels.html Guadagnino discussed his plans for an overall series of five films]] that continue Elio's story into adulthood, which would cover topics like the [[TragicAIDSStory AIDS Crisis]], the fall of the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall, [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR the dissolution of the USSR]] [[UsefulNotes/RepublicanItaly Silvio Berlusconi's rise to power]], and UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar.

* StraightGay: Neither Elio nor Oliver have any stereotypically gay characteristics; it probably helps that the actors that play both characters are straight in real life.

* {{Tsundere}}: When Elio starts to feel attraction for Oliver, he behaves rather antagonistically, making fun of the way he says "Later!" and refusing to play Oliver's song request.

** Also his sensitivity to calling the visiting gay couple 'Sonny and Cher.'

* WhoWheresShortShorts: Oliver wears ''very'' short shorts, accentuated by Armie Hammer's long legs.

* IKissYourFoot: After Elio gets a bloody nose, Oliver gives him a secret foot massage, and then he kisses Elio’s foot.

''Call Me By Your Name'' is a 2017 [[ComingOfAgeStory coming-of-age]] film, directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] [[Literature/CallMeByYourName the novel]] of the same name by André Aciman.

* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: One of the reasons Mr. Perlman implores Elio to embrace heartbreak is because young people live their lives without appreciating that it's the only one they have, and in doing so waste their best years.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Elio and Oliver are attracted to each other from day one, but aren't sure how to voice their feelings, especially when Elio reacts poorly to Oliver's attempt at making a move. [[spoiler:By the time they realize the feeling is mutual and get together, there's not much time left in the summer, and Oliver leaves, getting married shortly after.]]

* NerdsAreSexy: Kind of hard to avoid the trope when Armie Hammer is playing an academic.

* CreatorCameo: André Aciman, who wrote the novel this film is based on, appears in a cameo role.

* FourthDateMarriage: [[spoiler:Oliver marries a girl he's only been dating for a matter of months.]]

* TwiceShy: Elio belatedly realizes that Oliver's hostile looks toward him weren't actually hostile at all, and it was merely a shy person's way of holding a gaze. He then comments on how they must be the two shyest people in the planet. It comes back to bite them when they consummate their passions too late to develop a full relationship.

* EstablishCharacterMoment: The scene with Oliver musing about the origin of the word "apricot" is there to validate him as an academic.

%%* RedOniBlueOni: Elio is the blue to Oliver's red.