An Italian would understand, not the major, but the minor subtleties, because the major ones are not that subtle. When I heard that Luca was involved, I was extremely happy because I figured, here’s an Italian, he gets it. What was your response when Luca Guadagnino and James Ivory were attached to the adaptation? (Luckily, it did.) Days before the film’s release, Vulture spoke with Aciman over coffee in New York to discuss the book’s legacy, imagining sex acts he never performed, and all of its new fans on Twitter. He sent a draft his agent, while still not sure if the idea worked.
In early drafts, Elio and Oliver never quite consummated their relationship - until Aciman decided to let the characters have fun. And yet, ten years later, with the guidance of director Luca Guadagnino, the film is here, receiving rapturous reviews, and bringing attention back, once again, to the novel.Īciman wrote Call Me by Your Name nearly by accident, while stuck on another project. “The book has so much interiority that it made no sense to film it,” he tells Vulture. Which is why, when he published it in 2007, André Aciman did not expect to see ever a film version.
Elio’s narration is full of vivid detail, describing both his emotional state and the acts he and Oliver engage in. The book, which takes place “somewhere in Italy in the mid-’80s,” focuses on Elio, a bookish 17-year-old who barely knows but is consumed with desire for Oliver, a grad student staying with Elio’s family and working as his father’s assistant. Call Me by Your Name, a love story between two men replete with references to the classics, is not the kind of novel that typically becomes a film.
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