Call Me by Your Name Page #10

We see the stealthy foot-play. For Oliver it is all fun and

games, punctuating the conversation.

ELIO becomes giddy as MAFALDA serves him ice-cream. As he

begins to eat, it notices red spots appearing on the dessert.

It’s coming from above his head. He realizes that it is

streaming from his nose, that he is having a nosebleed.

ELIO:

(covering his nose with

his napkin)

Ghiaccio, ice, Mafalda, per favore,

presto!

OLIVER, astounded, leaps up and hands him his napkin. ELIO

tries to be calm, explains to everyone how "It happens all

the time”. Holding the napkin to his nose to stanch the

stream of blood falling into his dessert, he rises and

leaves.

61 INT. KITCHEN -PERLMAN VILLA -DAY 61

ELIO is in the kitchen looking for ice to stop his nose

bleeding, but the freezer is empty.

62 INT. BAR -PERLMAN VILLA -DAY 62

Later. In a very tight and confined space beside the living

room is the Perlman bar. ELIO is sitting on the floor, his

head tilted back, and is holding a napkin full of ice -now a

mixture of blood and water -on his nose. Beside him is an

ice bucket.

OLIVER:

Elio! Where are you?

45.

OLIVER is the bocchirale [hallway], looking for him. Elio

waves from the bar. Oliver goes over to him. ELIO smiles

ruefully.

OLIVER (CONT’D)

Was it my fault?

ELIO:

I’m a mess, aren’t I?

OLIVER:

I guess. The ancients said it never

hurts to be bled from time to time.

ELIO:

Sit for a second.

ELIO shifts a little to make room. The place is very tight,

his bare feet touch Oliver's ankles for a moment.

OLIVER takes Elio's feet in his hands and begins massaging

them, pulling on his toes until they crack. ELIO cries out in

mingled pleasure and pain.

ELIO (CONT’D)

Where did you learn to do that?

OLIVER:

My Jewish grandmother. She did it

all the time to us.

Elio looks again at Oliver’s necklace with the Star of David

on his chest.

ELIO:

I have one of those.

OLIVER:

You don’t ever wear it?

ELIO:

My mother says we are Jews of

discretion.

OLIVER:

I guess that fits your mom...

ELIO:

You’re going to kill me, you know

that? Ouch!

OLIVER:

(giving a final tug to one

of Elio’s big toes, and

getting up)

I hope not.

46.

OLIVER (CONT’D)

Are you going to be okay?

ELIO:

I’ll get over it.

OLIVER:

Come on, stand up. Lie on the

couch, rest a little. I’ll stick

around.

Oliver helps Elio up.

63 INT. BOCCHIRALE -PERLMAN VILLA -DAY 63

In the bocchirale OLIVER meets the sisters MARZIA and CHIARA.

They’re giggling.

CHIARA:

How is he? Will he live?

OLIVER:

I think so. He gave me a scare.

Bleeding all over the dining table.

CHIARA:

Really? I’ll be back in a minute.

Don’t go anywhere.

64 INT. LIVING ROOM -PERLMAN VILLA -DAY 64

The girls burst into the living room where Elio is lying on

the couch. CHIARA sits at the foot of it, MARZIA stands

peering down at ELIO. He looks up at her a bit sheepishly.

CHIARA takes a cigarette out of a pack and lights it. She

takes a drag on it, then holds it out close to the sole of

Elio’s bare foot. He pulls it up fast.

CHIARA:

(in French)

Ça t'a fait mal ? Pourtant,

tu as des pieds de paysanqui ne sentent rien. Paysan!

(You felt that? You have peasant

feet. They don’t feel things.

Peasant!)

MARZIA:

(in French)

Laisse-le tranquille!

(Leave him alone!)

Marzia caresses his hair softly.

47.

CHIARA:

(in French)

Doucement. Tu vas encore le faire

saigner.

(Easy. You’ll make him bleed

again.)

She holds out her pack of cigarettes to him and he takes one.

She lights it for him and he smokes it. CHIARA looks at him

coolly, as if looking at a rival.

CHIARA (CONT’D)

(in French)

Alors... On sort ou pas?

(So... are we going somewhere?)

ELIO:

(in french)

Peut-être. Mais si on sort, il ne

faut pas que ma mère me voie, elle

s'inquiéterait.

(regardant autour de lui)

Où est Oliver?

(Maybe. But if I go out my mother

can't see me. She'll get worried.

(looking around)

Where’s Oliver?)

CHIARA:

(in french)

Qu’est-ce que j’en sais?

(How would I know?)

65 EXT. RIVER -AFTERNOON 65

ELIO walks into the fresh water and swims. Down the river is

a group of his FRIENDS playing on the grass, Oliver isn’t

there. Elio is not unhappy. There is a rippling shaft of

sunlight on the water directly towards him. He swims into it.

65A INT. KITCHEN / PATIO -PERLMAN VILLA -LATER 65A

ELIO makes himself a smoothie in Mafalda’s kitchen, cuttingup a peach, a banana, then a pear, dates. Mafalda wants to do

it for him and tries to take the knife away. To her, a

smoothie is a foreign concoction.

MAFALDA:

Faccio io.

(Let me)

ELIO:

No, no, faccio da solo.

(No, I’m doing it by myself)

48.

He puts the cut-up fruit into a blender. While the blender

makes the smoothie he glances from the window out in the

garden at ANNELLA sitting on the bench overlooking the south

garden. She is working on a manuscript. He takes the smoothie

out into the garden, it is the last hour of the sun in the

waning day.

He drinks the smoothie, feeling rested. He calls to his

mother.

ELIO (CONT’D)

Est-ce qu’Oliver est là?

(Is Oliver around?)

ANNELLA:

N’est il pas sorti?

(Didn’t he go out?)

MAFALDA exits from the kitchen. While ELIO goes to sit with

his mother.

MAFALDA:

Signora vuole un frullato pure lei?

(Madame do you want a smoothie

too?)

ANNELLA:

No grazie Mafalda, ceniamo tra

poco. (No, thanks Mafalda, we’re

going to dinner)

ELIO Io esco stasera, non ceno (I’mgoing out this evening, I won’t

have dinner)

MAFALDA:

Ma dove vai a quest’ora? Mi fai

preoccupare. (But where at this

hour? I worry)

ELIO Ma di che? (about what?)

MAFALDA Secondo me non va bene. Signora...

(I’d advise against it)

ANNELLA:

(Smiling)

Lasciamolo fare.

(Let’s leave him)

MAFALDA enters the kitchen.

Revision49.

ANNELLA (CONT’D)Tu l’aimes bien, n’est-ce pas,

Oliver?

(You like him, don’t you? Oliver?)

ELIO Tout le monde aime Oliver.

(Everyone likes Oliver.)

ANNELLA Il t’aime bien aussi -plus que

toi, je pense.

(He likes you too -more than you

do, I think.)

ELIO C’est ton impression?

(Is that your impression?)

ANNELLA Non c’est celle d’Oliver.

(No, it was Oliver’s.)

ELIO Quand t’a-t-il dit cela?

(When did he tell you that?)

ANNELLA Il y a un moment.

(A while ago.)

ANNELLA caresses ELIO’s hair. He abruptly stands up. Then

sits down again.

66 EXT. SOUTH TERRAZZA -PERLMAN VILLA -EVENING 66

67

After dinner. ELIO is in the terrazza, waiting for Oliver to

return. He tries to read a book but he cannot concentrate.(We

notice that he is now wearing his Star of David.)

INT. ELIO’S BEDROOM -PERLMAN VILLA -NIGHT 67 *

Late night. ELIO is sitting at his desk, wide awake. He has

left the bathroom door intentionally ajar, hoping that the

light from the foyer might stream in just enough to reveal

his body. As ELIO hears OLIVER step onto the landing in the

hall, he jumps back in his bed pretending to be asleep.

OLIVER walks past Elio’s room without stopping, without even

a hesitation, and goes into his own room and shuts the door.

A few moments later ELIO hears Oliver open the door from his

bedroom into their common bathroom. Then he hears the door

into his own room from the bathroom click shut, as if being

locked. ELIO sits up in bed.

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