10 Movies Where The Last Scene Is The Best
2. Call Me By Your Name
Though some may find Luca Guadagnino's wonderful romantic drama Call Me by Your Name a little wince-inducing to watch these days due to recent events, it is a sublime piece of work on its own terms.
Guadagnino tenderly explores the blossoming romance between 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and 24-year-old grad student Oliver (Armie Hammer) over a summer in Italy, but at summer's end, Oliver heads back to the U.S., leaving Elio heartbroken.
This is compounded by a climactic phone call in which Oliver reveals to Elio that he's now engaged to marry a woman he's been seeing on-and-off for years.
After a brief chat, the pair call one another by their own names - something they did throughout their romance - the phone call ends, and Elio sits down by the fireplace.
As he stares into the fire, tears begin to stream down his face, Sufjan Stevens' song "Visions of Gideon" begins to play, and Guadagnino ingeniously holds on the single unbroken shot of Elio crying for almost the entirety of the end credits.
It's a perfectly devastating capper on which to end this small but significant chapter of Elio's story, and it's surely the scene that guaranteed Chalamet a Best Actor Oscar nomination.