Call Me by Your Namemade the long, long trek to the Oscars ceremony last weekend after first debuting at the Sundance Film Festival over a year ago, and the film came away with a well-deserved Best Adapted Screenplay trophy for writerJames Ivory. But there are still plenty of folks who haven’t gotten to enjoy directorLuca Guadagnino’s masterful romance yet, so luckily the film is hitting home video next week.
In anticipation of the Blu-ray and DVD release ofCall Me by Your Nameon March 13th, we here at Collider are happy to share a clip from one of the bonus features included on the release, “In Conversation with Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg & Luca Guadagnino.” This feature is a lengthy Q&A with the aforementionedCall Me by Your Namecast members and the film’s director, and in this clip Guadagnino reveals how he first got involved with the project while Hammer tells a funny story about theverylong wait between his first meeting with Hammer and when he got the part inCall Me by Your Name.
The Blu-ray release also includes a making-of featurette, an audio commentary track by Chalamet and Stuhlbarg, and the music video forSufjan Stevens’ Oscar-nominated original song “Mystery of Love.” Check out the clip in the video above.Call Me by Your Nameis currently available on Digital and hits Blu-ray and DVD on March 13th.
Here’s the official synopsis forCall Me by Your Name:
It’s the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family’s villa transcribing and playing classical music and reading. 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.
One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father, an eminent professor. 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.
Based on the novel by Andre Aciman,CALL ME BY YOUR NAMEwas directed by Luca Guadagnino with a screenplay by James Ivory. The film was produced by Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory and Howard Rosenman and executive produced by Derek Simonds, Tom Dolby, Margarethe Baillou, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Naima Abed, Nicholas Kaiser, Sophie Mas and Lourenço Sant’Anna
