Right this very moment you could drop what you’re doing, head to any number of stores, drop less than you’d spend on a few cocktails and become the proud owner of the precise digital data that would enable you to watch 2017’s Call Me By Your Name over and over again to your heart’s content.
Or why leave the house? Eh?
You could head over to iTunes, save yourself the gas and time and human interaction that comes with a trip into the scary outside world, and watch the film on a loop in perpetuity.
Related: Well, the full “God’s Own Country” sex scenes have arrived
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We don’t really recommend that, but it’s an option. Just throwing it out.
And speaking of options, if you’ve seen the film and are mostly just interested in rewatching a few…ahem…key moments, the Internet’s got you covered on that front, too.
Head here to relive the film’s most intimate moments, featuring literal and figurative peaches, and check out some charming photos of the cast below:
crowebobby
You don’t really see anything in the peach scene. I suppose it’s just the idea that has everyone so bent out of shape. I love the film, by the way, and Timothee’s very realistic, awkward attempts at sex
TheBigOne
It’s a shame that such a beautiful film gets drug down into the nasty world of sites such as this one, that use it as a piece of filthy sex garbage instead of the art that it is supposed to be.
JaredMacBride
@TheBigOne – Why are you here?
Terrycloth
I bought the DVD..they could have cut it down by 45 minutes easily…Armie seems bored and too old timothee stold the entire movie.
wld8hrt
All of the emotional connection, ultimately the love and pain of a first relationship would be lost along with the 45 minutes.
Armie seems cautious. And excited. As well as a little more experienced. And, given the time period, rightfully so.
Many find watching Love between two other people boring.
Yes, timothee STOLE most of the movie but everyone was exceptionally real.
Larry McD
That’s the difference between seeing it on a small screen and in a theater where it embraces you rather than simply playing on a screen…. and I suspect your small screen experience to miss the subtlety of Hammer’s performance. As far as Chalamet stealing the entire movie – he had the LEAD role. He was the star and he could not have asked for better supporting performances than he got from Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg (who had one of the more moving scenes/speeches I’ve seen in the past several years).
DrewD
Stuhlbarg made the whole movie for me. His final scene with Chalamet was so heartfelt. Who wouldn’t want a dad who was that understanding?!?
The rest of the movie was nice but a lot could have been edited out.
marq
Though the movie ends about 2 3rds of the way through the book… which is a good thing.
JED08
I rented it this past Saturday. I loved it as much as I thought that I would, so I’m sure that I will buy it now. There is precious little sex in it and for sure nothing graphic, and that’s fine by me. That’s not what draws me to this movie. It’s a beautiful film.
He BGB
Eli was 17 but Timothwe looked 22 and Oliver was supposed to be 24 but looked 35. Armie, even though a doll, has a dad bod, which 24 year olds don’t have. I enjoyed the film even though I couldn’t get through the book. When the father is having the talk with Elio at the end is he saying that he was gay and found Oliver attractive too? Because in the movie, the father seems to be touchy feely with Oliver and checks out his bod sometimes. Does mom know? I guess Elio was referring to himself. Maybe the actor playing the father couldn’t help himself drooling, being around Armie Hammer. I liked how the sex scenes were done tastefully. I’m not sure what the two actually did in bed, anal, oral, ?? And it doesn’t matter.
lkeels
Haven’t met a lot of normal 24 year olds, have you?
wld8hrt
No. His father is not admitting to a homosexual past. Those that think this are projecting and wishing it were the case. If you look at the film and characters as a whole, he is simply expressing his time as a young man experiencing his first love.
Saying it was a homosexual encounter destroys the family and its love and acceptance of people and their lives. Would be cheap and rediculous.
cd30
I enjoyed it more than i thought i would. i also was wondering about the father at the end. was he talking about himself with someone else or was it about oliver? Also in the first sex seen between elio and oliver, i was wondering why was elio upset with oliver? something didn’t happen. i’m thinking that elio wanted to have anal sex with olivers but oliver didn’t want to or let it happen. i think that because the next day elio was masturbating with the peach and oliver was like are you giving up on nialms already? you do that that’s me right. It was in my opinion the most beautiful and sad gay love story along with brokeback. I was curious as to how the parents were so layed back bout oliver and elio and knowing that they are hooking up. It’s almost like they were encouraging them. Does anyone else see that?
BobbyB
Should have gotten actual gay people to do this movie. It was overrated.
JLJ
I’m tired of that argument. The whole idea of “acting” is to be convincing as another person. Would you have the same complaint about the precious few gay actors playing straight roles?
whitakerk861
such a dull film, seems everyone loves the location and the sex scenes but turns a blind eye to the creep factor……a grad student grooming a teenager. God’s Own Country nailed it.
ShowMeGuy
Elio was the aggressor and in Italy in 1983……the age of consent was 14. Any creep factor stems from Hammer being older looking than a typical 24 year old grad student back in 1983.
nerfherder1990
Everything about that image looks so wrong. What is wrong with you all?! No wonder Christians hate us promoting movies about pedophelia. What the hell?!
Kevan1
Please, Armie looks older than 24 I know. I was a Freshman at seventeen and was dating a 21 year old Senior. I knew what I was doing. The age difference is not that great. Most states have legal age of consent at 16 and 17. How many str8 movies and real life situations with the same or grater age difference. I have yet to hear to many complaints until it comes to two consenting men, even a lesbian movie with the actors being the same age as in this movie would barely raise a brow.
Kevan1
Save your judgement for a creep like this. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/03/pastor-faces-47-charges-sexually-abusing-underage-boys/?utm_source=queerty&utm_medium=directlink&utm_campaign=directlink&utm_content=Pastor+faces+47+charges+for+sexually+abusing+underage+boys
ShowMeGuy
The age of consent in Italy in 1983 was 14. No pedophilia in this movie what so ever.
msc1208
Congratulations, You got me to click. Am I the only one that was under the impression that the scenes were extended scenes? Oh well. Also tired of reading about people claiming that this film is about a pedophile relationship. Sure it did not help that Armie Hammer looked nothing like a 24-year-old in the film. He looked 35 easily. But even in a scenario where someone is 35 it would not be illegal in the majority of U.S. States as there are only about 11 or 12 states left that have the age-of-consent set at 18. The age of consent in some states is 17, but the overwhelming majority is 16. So even for those of you that feel the age difference is just too much it would not matter in the States where the laws are 16 or 17. The law is the law.
msc1208
Certain things do vary by state. i was curious enough so I googled age-of-consent laws by state and I am learning a lot. Like in South Dakota it is perfectly legal for a 16-year-old to consent to sex with any adult, BUT if they sext you a nude pic and they are under the age of 18 it is considered child pornography. So how messed up is that? Sex OK, Nude pics bad.
Iowa Rex
“So how messed up is that?” Not at all. Welcome to America.
JamJewel
There is a huge problem with this idea of consent in that people don’t like the concept of consenting children.. [I know: I was one, having seduced my first lover when I was nine.] When the only definition society places on what it means to be an adult is age, people never believe that a child can give consent and always blame the adult. Is the child taking two trains and a bus to be with their adult lover really a victim? On the other hand, in low age-of-consent fundamental states where women are chattel, young girls are married off without their consent to adults without any intercession, predatory practices that are allowed under the pretext of religious freedoms. So we end up with hairs being split between who are, and what, ‘predators’ and ‘vulnerable children’ really mean. Yes, it should be all hands on deck to prosecute the pedophiles and molesters of our vulnerable children, but the fact is, many get away with it. And there are TONS of sexually active children who never grew up to feel they had been abused or molested.
Kat Casey
Granted, Armie Hammer could pass for 35, but my own father looked 35 when he was 20 and I know of many others who do/did, just as I’ve known 35 year-old men who could have passed for 18. Such distinctions are rather arbitrary regardless. I find it interesting that in fan forums or other articles having issue with the age of the characters (which I have absolutely no issue with in the context of their experiences and situation) I’ve yet to see one person bring up the age of the female character Chiara, with whom Oliver (Hammer) cavorts about. Chiara is 16 years old (though the actress who plays her looks older) but no one says boo probably because the actress does look older. When I was a teenager my first boyfriend was 14, spoke 6 languages, attended college, had to shave everyday, had a very hairy ass and told everyone he was 19 and was never questioned about it–everyone believed he was 19 and looked it and could act the part. In actual life experiences he was sometimes 25 and at other times still 14. The world is full of variety and to state that absolutes must apply to every person in every situation, especially regarding fictional characters, seems to me shortsighted and ignorant of the nuances of what actually happens in life.
JamJewel
And if you were over the age of consent, you could have been prosecuted….
M K
OK, I haven’t actually seen the film, just the trailers…. but am I the only one that gets the feeling of inappropriate interactions between them?? Maybe the boy is technically ‘legal’ but the affiliation between them seems to be one of mentorship; so a person of authority and in a position of a superior; so taking advantage of the younger.
ShowMeGuy
You’re working for my father for the summer and sleeping in my bedroom. I own you……not the other way around.
JDamian
I‘m not sure what purpose the speaking of Italian with subtitles did for this film. It is my humble opinion that it served no purpose and even cost film awards. Interesting movie but could have done without the distraction of subtitles.
alanballs
My (Chinese) BF brought the movie over to my apartment and we watched it together. I had no idea what I was going to experience. The title made no sense to me. We really enjoyed the movie, the story-line, the location, the actors. I was quite an emotional experience for us. I was astonished that my BF knew about it: proved to me that here in China, younger people aren’t as uninformed as many (including myself) think they are. Haven’t seen God’s Own Country yet….hoping my BF brings it over soon.
loren_1955
Saw the movie on big screen Christmas day. Was incredibly effected by the movie. Brought back memories I had not thought of in too many years. I was eight or nine and fell for a Mormon missionary in the area, oh how I loved him. He moved on as missionaries do. I was so devastated that I hid. My mom looked for me for hours. She finally found me balled up in the back seat of the car sobbing my heart out. At the time, I had no sense whatsoever of the feelings and implications. This old gay man now realizes the roots of being a sweet little gay boy. The movie was fantastic capturing the awakening.
AntBee
Hello Loren_1955,
I just read your comment, and I can totally empathize with you, about being young child, feeling the most intense love (what’s that?) for someone, but not being able to voice it, because “boys are supposed to like girls.” It is totally devastating when that love is left unfulfilled.
As a young boy, there were lots of older boys, boys my own age and a lot of men, to whom I found myself attracted, but it all came to naught.
I just wanted to let you know, your message hit home with me.