Call Me by Your Name Page #16

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113 EXT. PIAZZA DUOMO -CREMA -DAY 113

The central square with Crema's Duomo. ELIO sees OLIVER at

the newstand, sitting on his bike and scanning the headlines

of the International Herald Tribune, before heading in the

direction of the post office. ELIO rushes up to him.

OLIVER:

Something wrong?

ELIO:

I just had to see you.

OLIVER:

Aren’t you sick of me?

ELIO:

I just wanted to be with you.

If you want, I’ll go back now.

OLIVER stands still, dropping his hand with the bundle of

unsent letters, and simply stands there staring at ELIO,

shaking his head.

OLIVER:

Do you have any idea how glad I am

we slept together?

ELIO:

I don’t know.

OLIVER:

It’s just like you not to know. I

don’t want you to regret any of it.

I just dread the thought of having

messed you up. I don’t want either

of us to have to pay one way or

another.

ELIO:

I’m not telling anyone. There won’t

be any trouble.

OLIVER:

I didn’t mean that. I’m sure I’ll

pay for it somehow, though. For

you, however you think of it, it’s

still fun and games, which it

should be. For me it’s something

else which I haven’t figured out,

and the fact that I can’t scares

me.

ELIO:

Are you sorry I came here?

OLIVER:

I’d kiss you if I could.

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ELIO:

(coming up close toOliver)

F*** me, Elio.

OLIVER repeats his own name three times in Elio’s ear.

LIFE IN THE GARDEN

A second unit series of shots of life in the garden.

114 INT. KITCHEN -PERLMAN VILLA -EARLY AFTERNOON 114

MAFALDA is washing dishes in the kitchen. She clears away the

dessert plates from lunch with their fruit peelings. ANCHISE

enters the room with a basket full of huge, glowing,

succulent-looking peaches.

MAFALDA:

(in Italian)

Put them over there.

MAFALDA points to the fruit bowl at the center of the table.

ELIO enters the kitchen from the outside, with a book in hishands and a towel on his shoulders. His eyes fall on thefreshly picked fruit. He picks out two and leaves the room.

115 INT. STAIRCASE -PERLMAN VILLA -EARLY AFTERNOON 115

On the stairs he meets ANNELLA on her way up to nap and

kisses her. She looks pleased by this unexpected show of

affection from her teenage son. He eats a peach.

116 INT. ATTIC -PERLMAN VILLA -EARLY AFTERNOON 116

ELIO enters the attic. Puts the remaining peach on the old

bedside table and lies down on the mattress where he made

love with Marzia. He opens his book and starts reading but,

easily distracted, starts looking outside the window at the

glorious summer sky.

He tries reading again, but still no chance. His gaze scans

the room, the abandoned objects, the dark corners... the

peaches.

He stretches out his hand to one and plays with it. He turns

its crease towards him. Then opens it half-way with his

thumbs and pushes the pit out. The pit falls on the attic

floor. He brings the fuzzy, blush-colored peach to his groin

and lowers his swim trunks. He presses himself into it until

the parted fruit slides down his erection. The fruit is

leaking on him. Though firm, it breaks apart.

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Holding the two halves of the reddened core in either hand,

he begins to rub himself with them.

When his orgasm comes, very soon, he carefully aims thespurts into the open peach. “What a crazy thing this was!” he

thinks, as he holds the fruit in both hands and looks around.

He places the two halves of the raped peach on the bedside

table and covers himself with the towel.

Later. Elio wakes to the sound of someone entering the attic.

OLIVER:

I was looking everywhere for you...

What are you doing up here?

OLIVER sits next to him on the mattress. He starts kissing

him on one arm. He removes the towel to reveal, to his

surprise, that Elio is not wearing his swimsuit. He then

swiftly leans down bringing his lips to Elio's groin, but

after a moment he looks up with a questioning expression.

OLIVER (CONT’D)

What have you done?

OLIVER looks at the broken peach beside them. He picks it up.

OLIVER (CONT’D)

(holding it out)

Is this what I think it is?

ELIO nods in mock shame.

OLIVER (CONT’D)

You tried out the plant kingdom?

Next will be minerals? You’re

rejecting the animal kingdom

already? That would be me, I

suppose.

ELIO:

I’m sick, aren’t I?

Oliver pulls off his bathing suit.

OLIVER:

I wish everyone were as sick as

you. Want to see sick?

He peers into the peach for a moment, ELIO pretends to hide

his eyes.

OLIVER (CONT’D)

Now may I taste it?

ELIO:

Don’t!

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But OLIVER dips a finger into the core of the peach and

brings it to his mouth.

OLIVER:

The peach juice helps a lot.

(offering it)

Want to try it?

ELIO:

(reaching for Oliver’s

hand holding the peach)

Let it go! No!

OLIVER holds it farther away.

ELIO (CONT’D)

Look, you don’t have to do this.

I’m the one who came after you.

Everything that’s happened is

because of me

OLIVER:

(still holding the peach

away from ELIO)

Nonsense. I wanted you from day

one. I just hid it better.

ELIO lunges out again to grab the fruit from Oliver’s hand,

but with his other hand OLIVER catches hold of his wrist and

squeezes it hard.

ELIO:

You’re hurting me.

OLIVER:

Then let go.

ELIO reaches out to him, bursting into tears. He muffles his

sobs against Oliver’s bare shoulder. Then OLIVER holds him

close.

OLIVER (CONT’D)

(as if soothing a child)

Whatever happens between us, Elio,

I just want you to know..

ELIO:

(sobbing)

What?

OLIVER:

(taking hold of Elio’s

hand)

Don’t ever say you didn’t know.

They kiss as lovers committing themselves.

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117 INT./EXT. HUT -PERLMAN VILLA -NIGHT 117

The same night. The Perlman house is mostly dark, the window

shutters all closed. There is a little light out in the hut

next to the garage, where Anchise sleeps. We see him throughthe window, sitting at a table working on something. He has

taken some tool apart and is cleaning the pieces, filing an

edge of metal and so forth.

118 INT./EXT. PERLMAN VILLA -NIGHT 118

Through another lit window, in Mafalda’s part of the house,

we can see MAFALDA ironing. She is carefully pressing the

sleeve of Oliver’s blue shirt.

119 EXT. GARDEN -PERLMAN VILLA -NIGHT 119

The garden of the villa in the darkness, alluring and

enigmatic.

ELIO:

What are you thinking about?

OLIVER:

Things. Going back to the States.

The courses I have to teach this

fall. My book. You.

ELIO:

No one else?

OLIVER:

No one else.

Silence.

ELIO:

In two weeks you’ll be back at

Columbia. I don’t know what I’ll do

then. At least you’ll be somewhere

else, where there aren’t any

memories... We wasted so many days

so many weeks.

OLIVER:

Wasted? I don’t know.

ELIO:

...why didn’t you give me a sign?

OLIVER:

I did. At least I tried.

ELIO:

When?

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OLIVER:

Once, when we were playing

volleyball, I touched you... Justas a way of showing... I liked you.

The way you reacted made me feelI’d almost molested you. I decided

to keep my distance.

120 INT. MASTER BEDROOM -PERLMAN VILLA -NIGHT 120 *

From the open window of their bedroom the Perlmans can hear

Elio and Oliver talking. Not the words. But the tone of the

conversation is undeniably intimate.

ANNELLA is on a small sofa. PERLMAN is already in bed, they

look at each other for a long moment. The off-screen voices

are almost whispers, they continue. PERLMAN stands, moves a

sofa chair to be closer to his wife, then sits on it. He

takes her hand and kisses it.

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PERLMAN Elio e Oliver si sono proprio

trovati. (Elio and Oliver have

grown quite fond of each other)

ANNELLA Sì, hanno una bella amicizia.(Yes.

They have a beautiful friendship)

PERLMAN È un peccato che parta.. (It’s a

shame he’s leaving)

(beat)Sta tornando il fresco. (The nights

are getting cool again)

ANNELLA smiles at her husband. Aroused, he reaches over forAnnella to pull her toward him.

INT. ELIO’S BEDROOM -PERLMAN VILLA -DAY 121

Next day. Oliver’s blue shirt is on a hanger, all clean and

pressed by Mafalda, with an attached note: “For Oliver, from

Elio.” Elio strips off the shirt he’s wearing and puts on the

fresh one from Oliver. He looks at himself approvingly in the

mirror after buttoning it up, then says to his image: “I doknow you, and you’re not so bad.” He unbuttons the top couple

of buttons in order to acquire Oliver’s more laid-back look.

122 EXT. GARDEN IN FRONT OF THE KITCHEN -PERLMAN VILLA -DAY122

ELIO wears the shirt down to breakfast. No one comments on

it, including OLIVER, who puts his bare foot under Elio’s

when he takes a seat.

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