Sundance 2017: 10 Films Everyone Is Buzzing About

2. Call Me By Your Name

Brigsby Bear
Sony Pictures Classics

Director: Luca Guadagnino

The Plot: Based on the 2007 novel by André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name stars Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer as an adolescent boy and twenty-something research assistant who begin to develop a romantic bond.

The Buzz: Currently, Call Me By Your Name boasts an astonishing 98 Metascore (after ten reviews) which marks it as the fifth highest rated movie on the site.

It received perfect scores from the likes of The Guardian, The Playlist, Indiewire and Variety, garnering praise for its powerful emotional beats and its ending, which, according to The Guardian, features "one of the best exchanges between father and son in the history of cinema."

The film also provides Armie Hammer a role in which he can shine, after having a lot of bad luck since his marvellous turn in 2010's The Social Network. Additionally, his co-star Chalamet is being labelled as a breakout star, one of the world's strongest young talents and an actor to keep an eye on going forward.

Call Me By Your Name Does not yet have a wide release date.

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