Call Me By Your Name gets 4 Oscar nods

(ANSA) - Rome, January 23 - Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name on Tuesday obtained four Oscar nominations - best film, best actor for Timothée Chalamet, best adapted screenplay by James Ivory from André Aciman's novel, and best original song (Sufjan Stevens - Mistery of love).
    The film, a tale of male homosexual desire in an idyllic northern Italian setting, has generated a lot of Oscar talk.
    The film is the story of a first love set in 1983, with much of it taking place at a house in Crema over the languid rhythm of long summer days.
    Like the 2007 book on which the film is based, the story focuses on an affair between a teen and a 20-year-old graduate student.
    Timothée Chalamet plays, Elio, 17, a talented Italian-American musician who lives with his father Perlman, played by Michael Stuhlbarg, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a cultured family in which everyone is fluent in English, French, Italian and, for Annella, German. The family is also Jewish, or "Jews of discretion", as the protagonist calls them - in a metaphor for ensconced sexuality.
    Every year, Elio's father, a professor of Greek and Roman culture, invites a graduate student to spend the summer with the family to help him with research and this year the guest is Oliver, played by Armie Hammer. Both Elio and Oliver have romantic liaisons with local young women while their interest for each other evolves into a relationship - a story primarily seen through Elio's point of view.
    Chalamet and Armie Hammer were up for Golden Globes but lost out.
    The film is up against The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Dunkirk, The Darkest Hour, The Post, Lady Bird, Get Out and Phantom Thread. Italy is also in the running for an Oscar with Alessandra Querzola, who garnered a nomination for best production design with Blade Runner 2049.
    Palermo-born Guadagnigno, 46, is known for Io sono l'amore (I Am Love, 2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015).
    The director is currently working on a remake of Dario Argento's 1977 cult horror film Suspiria with a star-studded cast including Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth, Chloe Grace Moretz, Lutz Ebersdorf and Jessica Harper.