Call Me By Your Name [top] -

Much of the film's power lies in what remains unsaid between the characters. Long takes and wide shots allow tension to build naturally.

We are introduced to Elio Perlman, a precocious and multilingual 17-year-old (played with extraordinary nuance by a then-21-year-old Timothée Chalamet), whose family spends each summer in their 17th-century villa in Northern Italy. His father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an archaeology professor, invites a different graduate student each summer to assist with his academic papers. This year, that student is Oliver (Armie Hammer), a confident, handsome, and seemingly carefree 24-year-old American.