Movie blossom...humanizing, fantastic: call us all by our names!!

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2020)

It's a sensation of peace and warmth, despite the strong emotional charge filled with passion and insecurities of two handsome and sensitive guys, surrounded by gentle and caring people in astonishing surroundings with fantastic lyrics.
The movie slides smoothly through your eyes, the music enlightens the senses, the unspoken understanding of the members of the family's attitudes and gestures. Their strong love and jewish life perspective set the tone, specially, when it comes to Elio, their adolescent son and his unease of being intellectually and sexually attracted to a brilliant young man, Oliver, which they admire and joins the family for some time, being mentored by Elio's father, Prof.Perlman, a historian and anthropologist specialized in ancient Art.
The rhythm of the piano is marked by the sounds and the beautiful landscape of the blooming Italian countryside, filled with apricots, fresh meals and sunny days.
They ride bikes, swim in ponds, hike, meet French girls, write, love and discuss philosophy and music in several languages. There's a complete support to find love and have a good human life experience, whithout any moral judgement, by the great and mature parents.
But suddenly passion, lust and human frailties take place and they find each other completely lost in a love blossom. It's like a snapshot and Oliver has to leave eventually, but good experiences become part of who we are and change us forever.
Finally, the movie exposes the human doubts and thrills involving love and sex, somehow reflecting the thoughts and feelings of Elios's late adolescence and most recent personal discoveries.