Call Me by Your Name Page #17

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MAFALDA puts an egg down in front of OLIVER, but before she

can prepare it for him ELIO takes it and expertly cracks the

top for him with his spoon.

PERLMAN observes his son’s protective concern that no speck

of the shell should fall into Oliver’s egg.

ELIO:

Americans never know how to do it.

PERLMAN:

I’m sure we have our way..

Oliver’s foot under the table resting on Elio’s signals that

maybe he should let it go and he seizes the second egg,

cracking it himself.

123 INT. STAIRCASE -PERLMAN VILLA -DAY 123

Later. ELIO runs down the stairs wearing a bathing suit andOLIVER’s blue shirt, carrying a towel.

The front door opens and MARZIA walks in. She looks at him

questioningly. ELIO would like her not to be there.

MARZIA:

(in French)

Tu as disparu pendant trois jours.

(You’ve been gone three days.)

ELIO:

I.. had to work.

MARZIA:

(in French)

Mais tu as disparu...

(But you disappeared.)

Elio doesn’t know what to say, or do.

MARZIA (CONT’D)

Am I your girl?

(Est-ce que je suis ta copine?)

Elio doesn't reply. MARZIA leaves, trying to keep from

crying.

124 EXT. ABBEVERATOIO -PERLMAN VILLA -AFTERNOON 124

By the pool. PERLMAN and ANNELLA sit at a table in their

bathing suits having a drink. ELIO and OLIVER sit on the edge

of the pool at the other end, their feet in the water.

ELIO:

I hurt her feelings. Love hurts.

Revision81.

OLIVER, thinking they are unobserved by the others, caressesElio’s foot next to his in the water with one of his own.

Perlman sees this from where he is sitting with ANNELLA, and

nods to her in the boys’ direction. She looks over towards

OLIVER and ELIO.

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PERLMAN:

Oliver told me he has to go to

Bergamo for a couple of days to do

some research at the university

there before he leaves. He would

then fly home directly from Linate

ANNELLA:

Oh... maybe Elio could go with him?

It would be nice for them to get

away for a couple of days. (beat)

Where would they stay?

PERLMAN:

He said something about a pensione.

ANNELLA:

(laughing and pretendinf

to be horrified)

Oh, no! Let’s make them a hotel

reservation. A pensione, oy!

Perlman laughs with his wife.

EXT. WAR MEMORIAL -PANDINO -DUSK 125 *

OLIVER and ELIO, still wearing their swimsuits, are in front

of the War World I Memorial for Fallen Soldiers, in thenearby town of Pandino. Elio crosses the steps and tries to

put his arms around it; he stands there spread-eagled.

ELIO:

They’re too big for even two men to

get their arms around.

OLIVER:

Let’s see.

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OLIVER goes up and his arms flung out. Then attacks the

problem from the other side of the monument, facing it, and

putting his arms around it in a kind of embrace.

Unseen by them, a young couple – a boy and a girl – are

embracing in the underbrush nearby. They smile at the two

young men and renew their own hugging. They look like a

shepherd and shepherdess, wearing simple, everyday work

clothes.

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Unseen, they watch ELIO and OLIVER, whose extended fingertips

almost touch, but not quite.

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Revision82.

They are still several inches apart as they stretch their

bodies, exhaling with their effort. But the stone gleams

stubbornly in the space between their fingers.

OLIVER decides to cheat, and moves in ELIO’s direction, until

they make contact. They yell and OLIVER gathers ELIO into his

arms and kisses him.

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The boy and girl in the shadows resume their own kiss.

OLIVER puts a hand inside ELIO’s bathing suit, but ELIO

pushes him away.

ELIO:

Not here. Not in all this, not on

this stone.

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The two young men run back to their bikes and ride off,

watched by the young couple. The “Shepherd” moves his hand

on the breast of the “Shepherdess,” and she lets him keep it

there.

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126 EXT. COACH STATION -MONTODINE -DAY 126 *

OLIVER puts his suitcases in the open trunk of a waiting

coach. He is saying his goodbyes to the PERLMANS before he

and ELIO get on it. ANNELLA kisses Oliver with great

affection; PERLMAN shakes his hand warmly, all formalitygone. Both say “Come back soon!" The driver closes the trunk.

ELIO says goodbye to his parents, unable to hide an honest

smile of happiness.

Chiara arrives driving her bike to salute Oliver but the

coach is leaving...

The Perlmans and Chiara watch the coach drive away as Elio

and Oliver take seats inside it.

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INT./EXT. BUS -FROM CREMA TO ALPI OROBIE -DAY 127

Oliver smiles and waves to Chiara on the half-crowded bus.

OLIVER dozes off, his head on ELIO’s shoulder. ELIO looks at

him, his gaze full of unaccountable emotions.

Outside the window the summer landscape changes from the flat

plains into the first alps, the Orobie.

EXT. BOSCO/PRATO -CASCATE DEL SERIO -DAY 128

A small forest of beech and fir trees. ELIO and OLIVER walk

on a trail with their backpacks.

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They cross a small bridge over a creek and reach a large

grass field, looking towards the mountain patiently awaiting

something.

Oliver looks at ELIO and hugs him, a friendly grab-hug. Then

a hand moves down on Elio's thigh, and he looks around.

The explosion of water in the mountain is violent and

unexpected. The river leaps three times on the rocks beforeit reaches the bottom of the valley. OLIVER jumps up and in a

very American impulse howls at this spectacle of water. ELIO

laughs. They run to the water and disappear into the cascade.

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