First look at gay romance Call Me by Your Name

The buzz around gay romance Call Me by Your Name has been building since its premiere received a standing ovation at Sundance Film Festival back in January. The first trailer, released online last night, suggests Luca Guadagnino’s sun-dappled film is as swoon-worthy as the early reviews suggests.

Based on André Aciman’s acclaimed novel of the same name, the film follows the love affair between precocious 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet), an American-Italian who lives with his parents in rural Italy, and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a handsome American student who has come to stay with the family during the summer to assist Elio’s professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg).

Guadagnino has form at making sexy romantic dramas (I Am Love) and films about beautiful people smouldering by swimming pools (A Bigger Splash), so he has the perfect credentials to do justice to Aciman’s story. With Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s favourite cinematographer, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, behind the camera and two new Sufjan Stevens songs on the soundtrack – including Mystery of Love, which plays in the trailer – there’s plenty to look forward to.

Call Me by Your Name is released in the UK on 27 Oct by Sony. Take a look at the poster below and watch the trailer in the player above or on YouTube.