Call Me by Your Name Page #4

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21 EXT. TABLE UNDER THE LIME TREES -PERLMAN VILLA -EVENING 21

Guests are gathering at the table. MAFALDA announces dinner

and removes the cards from the table, putting things back in

order. PERLMAN makes a funny face. Two empty seats around the

table. The absence of Signor Ulliva is commented upon.

MAFALDA asks ELIO, who just showed up, whether Oliver will be

joining them. “Sono le otto passate” she says. ANNELLAappears from the living room, followed by her guests.

ANNELLA:

(in Italian)Noi ci mettiamo a tavola (We’ll sit

down).

ELIO:

(in Italian)

Non vi sembra ineducato come dice

“Later...”? arrogante? Mi sembra

che facciamo di tutto per farlostare a suo agio da noi. (Don’t you

think it’s rude when he says

“Later...”? Arrogant? After all,

it’s just to show him a good time

here.)

PERLMAN:

I don’t think so. I think Oliver is

shy. That’s what he is.

The camera stays on ELIO as he considers the possibility.

ELIO:

You watch, this is how he’ll say

goodbye to us when the time comes.

With his gruff, slapdash, Later!

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ANNELLA:

Meanwhile, we’ll have to put up

with him for six long weeks. Won’t

we?

PERLMAN:

I’m telling you, he’s just shy.

You’ll grow to like him.

ELIO:

Yeah, but what if I grow to hate

him?

ANNELLA:

(to Elio)

Mio piccino!

(My little one!)

(to Mafalda)

Può togliere i piatti di Mr.

Oliver? (You can remove Mr.

Oliver’s place setting away?)

This is performed instantly and without a hint of regret.

ELIO watches Oliver’s silverware, his place mat, glass,

napkin, disappear as if he had never existed. ELIO grows

thoughtful at the sudden violence of Mafalda’s action -may

even involuntarily put his own hand out to stop her. The

others take a seat. PERLMAN picks up his napkin to perform a

trick for the children, wrapping it around his thumb.

22 INT. LIVING ROOM -PERLMAN VILLA -NIGHT 22

When everyone returns to the living room, PERLMAN asks his

son to play something he then goes in the bar.

ELIO Non mi va. (I don’t feel like it)

PERLMAN:

Perchè non ti va? (Why don’t you

feel like it?)

ELIO:

(sharply)

Perché non mi va!

ANNELLA:

(In French)

Pourquoi tu ne vas pasà Moscazzano avec les autres?

(Why not to Moscazzano with the

others?)

16.

ELIO:

(In French)

J’en ai pas envie.

(I don’t want to.)

ANNELLA:

Go see your friends. Go out. Do

something.

Ne reste pas là comme une araignée

sur le mur, mon chéri!

(Don’t just be a spider on the

wall, darling!)

Spoiling everyone’s fun.

A burst of laughter from the kids. Perlman returns from the

bar holding glasses. The TEENAGE BOY pretends to be a spider

and comes at his cousin waving his arms menacingly. ELIO

gives in, and goes over to the piano. He starts playing a

lively piece.

23 INT. ELIO’S BEDROOM -PERLMAN VILLA -NIGHT 23

ELIO is on his bed, still dressed, in a restless half-sleep.

He hears a noise outside and quickly strips off his clothes,

putting on his pajama bottoms. But no one comes, there are no

sounds on the stairs or activity in the adjoining bathroom.

24 INT. ELIO’S BEDROOM -PERLMAN VILLA -DAWN 24

A ray of sunlight hits ELIO’s sleeping face. He wakes and

gets up. He goes over to the door that separates his roomfrom Oliver's. He grabs the doorknob and is about to knock,

but doesn't. He looks between the cracks of the door: he can

see Oliver sleeping, still in his clothes.

25 EXT. LIME TREES -PERLMAN VILLA -AFTERNOON 25

Another day. ELIO is sitting at his usual table under the

lime trees, working. From where he's sitting, Elio can see

PERLMAN and OLIVER through an open window in his father's

study. They are discussing Oliver’s manuscript on

Heraclithus. Elio tries to listen.

PERLMAN:

I think your insights here are

persuasive, but..

OLIVER:

Go on, I’m okay with criticism.

PERLMAN:

You are? Good. I think this needs

firming up.

(MORE)

17.

PERLMAN (CONT'D)

It feels like you need to accept

the paradoxical nature of this

philosopher’s thinking, not just

explain it..

ANCHISE approaches Elio, carrying a large fish wrapped up in

a t-shirt, which he uncovers for Elio.

ELIO:

Sei stato al fiume?

(You've been at the river?)

ANCHISE:

(smiling)

Si.

Anchise takes the fish towards the kitchen. Meanwhile in the

studio the conversation continues.

OLIVER:

(nodding)

I’m okay with firming up -I’m okay

with paradox. Back to the drawing

board.

PERLMAN:

Wait...

(ironic, re:
Oliver's

shabby look)

Did you have a good time last

night?

ELIO is distracted by the sudden burst of enthusiasm heard

from the kitchen over the fish Anchise caught.

26 EXT. SOUTH TERRAZZA/ABBEVERATOIO -PERLMAN VILLA -DAY 26

Later. ELIO sits with his head back on the cushion of his

chair, his eyes closed. OLIVER, far away, is sitting on the

edge of the trough, his feet in the water, reading the pages

from the manuscript he showed Perlman. He looks towards Elio.

OLIVER:

(loud)

Are you sleeping?

He waves a sheet of his manuscript at him.

ELIO:

(to himself)

I was.

Oliver gestures him to come closer. Elio does, slowly. He

notices Oliver is wearing a red bathing suit.

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OLIVER:

Just listen to this drivel: “For

the early Greeks, Heidegger

contends, this underlying hidden-

ness is constitutive of the way

beings are, not only in

relation to themselves but also to

other entities generally. In other

words, they do not construe hidden-

ness merely or primarily in terms

of entities' relation to human

beings.”

Oliver looks at Elio.

OLIVER (CONT’D)

Does this make any sense to you?

Not to me. Nor to your dad.

ELIO is pleased that Oliver has asked his opinion on the

manuscript.

ELIO:

Maybe it did when you wrote it.

OLIVER, as if pretending to weigh Elio’s words carefully.

OLIVER:

That’s the kindest thing anyone’s

said to me in months.

He speaks ever so earnestly, as if hit by a sudden

revelation, in a low tone. This makes ELIO feel ill at ease.

He looks away.

ELIO:

Kind?

OLIVER:

Yes, kind.

Silence returns. ELIO looks at OLIVER, in his red bathing

suit, lying on the edge of the trough. And OLIVER lets

himself fall in the water, to ELIO's surprise.

27 STILL LIVES 27

Still lives of Oliver's swim trunks of different colors

drying on the bedroom windowsill.

NARRATOR:

Oliver had three personalities

depending on which bathing suit he

was wearing. Red: for bold, set in

his ways, gruff and ill-tempered

snappy... dangerous.

(MORE)

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NARRATOR (CONT'D)

Yellow:
good-humored, funny, but

not without barbs -didn’t give in

too easily.

He didn’t wear his green bathing

suit that often. It meant maybe

that he was eager to learn, eager

to speak, just eager, sunny.

28 EXT. ABBEVERATOIO -PERLMAN VILLA -AFTERNOON 28

ELIO observes OLIVER swimming in the narrow and long stonetrough. ANNELLA is close, but she's moving away with a basket

of freshly picked fruit. OLIVER comes out of the water with

his green swim trunks.

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