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Elio Perlman
Elio is the narrator and main character of Call Me by Your Name , a 2007 YA dramatic novel by André Aciman. The publication was later adapted into the 2017 film by the same name . Elio is played in the film by Timothée Chalamet.
Elio is an American teenager with a talent for piano and musical transcription living on the Italian coast in the summer of 1983 when his father, an academic, has an American grad student named Oliver stay with the family for the summer while he studies. While Elio turns himself inside out with his newfound gender non-conforming attraction to Oliver which eventually ends up with the two of them having a torrid affair, Elio also dates and has sex with local girl, Marzia.
He expresses enjoyment in both his attraction and sexual encounters with both characters. While both the novel and motion picture are hailed as contemporary “gay” classics, it’s essential to note that Elio is a queer man; while the focus of the story is on his queer sexual awakening, he is still attracted to women throughout the rest of his animation.
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'Call Me By Your Name's Strongest Scene Is About Fatherly Acceptance
Call Me By Your Nameis one of the more memorable coming-of-age LGBT films of recent years and a definite must-see. For the film, Michael Stuhlbargputs on a stunning performance as the protagonist's father, Mr. Perlman. Mr. Perlman provides a positive example of acceptance in fatherhood, especially pronounced against the backdrop of 1980s rural Italy.
The film follows Timothée Chalamet as Elio Perlman, a Jewish boy summering with his family in a northern Italian village. Mr. Perlman is there to further his archeological studies. He has invited Oliver, a graduate student portrayed by Armie Hammer, to live with the family in their summer abode and assist with his work. As a result, Elio and Oliver commence on a amorous summer of adventure and self-discovery.
The Adventure of Self-Discovery
Throughout the first act, Elio and Oliver are standoffish. Their bickering and intense stare downs belie the two's interest in one another. What could appear to be masculine competitiveness over the women in the story is, in proof, jealousy for one another'
‘Call Me by Your Name’ Composer Ends Debate Over Elio’s Father and That Monologue Reveal
“Call Me by Your Name” author André Aciman is currently making the press rounds in support of his new book “Find Me,” a sequel to his beloved 2007 gay romance novel. While the new book once again picks up the stories of Elio and Oliver several years after the events of “Call Me by Your Name,” it spends a considerable amount of time on Elio’s father, Samuel Perlman. In an interview with GQ, Acemin was asked about Samuel’s legendary monologue at the end of “Call Me by Your Name,” which gained breakout popularity among cinephiles thanks to Michael Stuhlbarg’s inspired rendition of the speech in Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar-winning adaptation.
“When you least await it, nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot,” Samuel tells his heartbroken son Elio. “Just remember: I am here. Right now, you may not want to feel anything — maybe you never wished to feel anything and maybe it’s not to me that you’ll want to speak about these things. But feel something, you obv
Call Me By Your Name author finally makes Elio’s dad’s sexuality clear
In a recent interview with GQ, Aciman explained that while the star Michael Stuhlbarg’s translation of the monologue kind of implies that Samuel is coming out to Elio, this was not what he had in thought when he wrote it.
“This was not at all my intention when I wrote the book,” Aciman told GQ. “The movie has basically validated that particular approach. And I have to tell that I can see that this is equally a valid approach to the father’s speech. The father may have been attracted to men or not, we don’t know from the book. From the movie, you own every right to infer that. But not in the book.”
In Find Me, a sequel to Call Me By Your Name that revisits the characters years later, Samuel splits up with his wife. “He’s not splitting because he has queer tendencies, but simply because something must have gone improper in their marriage,” said Aciman.