Call number
DVD-DRAMA 480
Collection
Publication
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2018)
Description
It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio, a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver, a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Media reviews
To describe this as one of the year’s most pleasurable movies, in short, may be less a matter of critical insight than of simple observation.
Here’s the movie of the year for incurable romantics, a rapturous ode to first love that sweeps you up on waves of dizzying eroticism and then sweetly, emphatically leaves you emotionally shattered.
...a lush and vibrant masterpiece about first love set amid the warm, sunny skies, gentle breezes and charming, tree-lined roads of northern Italy.
An exquisite romance, a nuanced coming-of-age tale and a perfect portrait of an Italian summer...
User reviews
LibraryThing member themulhern
Pretty North Italian scenery. Either Merchant or Ivory was associated with this novel, so you can bet it's not fast-paced. But ultimately the message was that it's nice to be rich and staying in lovely northern Italy over the summer while drinking delicious apricot nectar. It was a period piece of
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a modern sort, so there were tape decks and a walkman hanging around in the lovely house where the privileged people stay. Show Less
Awards
GLAAD Media Award (Winner — 2018)
UPC
043396523821
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