'Call Me by Your Name' review: At long last, first love
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Dec 14, 2017
3 minutes
Set in the summer of 1983, in a land of leisurely alfresco lunches and spontaneous all-day bike rides under the northern Italian sun, the romantic idyll "Call Me by Your Name" is enough to make you move to the town of Crema, even if your rational self realizes the director Luca Guadagnino trades in a heightened, miragelike state of mythic yearning.
The swoony atmosphere is familiar from his earlier films, particularly "I Am Love" (2009), in which Tilda Swinton communed with the Italian countryside, a young lover and every sensory pleasure known to
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