Call Me by Your Name is a beautiful film. And beautiful is perhaps the best way I can describe it, the setting, the characters and just the entrancing way it is filmed. It is so intimate in everything that it does that it is hard to see it as anything but complete truth. There is something about this movie that made me fall so in love with it. And upon re-watching it, more times then I wish to admit, I think it is because of the reality of the romance. As well as the representation of two men falling in love without labelling themselves. There is no devastating event, or crazy dramatic moments, it is just pure summer love. This film is just so natural in the way it explores teenage sexual awakenings which makes it so different from other movies I’ve seen. Ironically it is because it doesn’t exaggerate their relationship massively which makes it seem so exciting for me, Elio and Oliver are just two souls who have completely fallen head over heels with each other. There are so many poignant scenes in which the two show each other how they feel without making a big spectacle of it, like what happens in most romantic films. One of which being the scene when they say goodbye to each other. Standing on a train platform they just nod at each other, embracing without saying a single word, making this scene so heart-breaking, showing there are no words that could describe their melancholy. Although for me it felt like a bittersweet sadness, happy that they found each other. Luca Guadagnino’s way of portraying their surroundings with bold saturated colours just further embodies the incredibly bold and bright relationship they had. I just love this film, there’s not really much else I can say about it apart from I wish I was somewhere in northern Italy, 1983.