A "special friendship" in picturesque Italy.

Rating: 9/10 (24 September 2017)

This film is set in 1983, in a vacation home in northern Italy. 17- year-old Elio's father, an archaeology professor, brings in a research assistant, hunky 24-year-old Oliver. With their shared Jewish heritage and Elio's responsibility to play host, they fall in love, though for a while they miss each other's signals. The father recognizes the "special friendship", and arranges an excuse to keep them together a little while longer, mentioning that he had a similar relationship in his youth.
This film has gorgeous photography of small-town Italy, with a well- acted plot.