Call Me by Your Name Page #5

OLIVER:

Elio! What are you doing?

ELIO:

Reading my music.

Oliver lies down on a big towel, his belongings spread around

it.

OLIVER:

No you’re not.

ELIO:

Thinking, then.

OLIVER:

About?

ELIO:

Private.

ANNELLA, amused, listens to the conversation.

OLIVER:

So you won’t tell me?

ELIO:

So I won’t tell you.

OLIVER:

(explaining to Annella)

So he won’t tell me.

In that case I’m going with your

mom.

Putting on his espadrilles, OLIVER takes ANNELLA's basket and

follows her to the orchard, goes up to a ladder and climbsit, stretching into the branches for the ripe fruit as ELIO

watches. ELIO goes over to them and offers to hold the

basket, which is filling with apricots. OLIVER continues to

toss down fruit to ELIO and ANNELLA below.

20.

DISSOLVE TO:

29 EXT. PERLMAN VILLA -AFTERNOON 29

OLIVER arrives on his bike from town, wearing the blue

bathing suit and the blue billowy shirt he had when he first

arrived. The house is quiet and deserted on a Saturday

afternoon.

30 INT. ELIO’S BEDROOM -PERLMAN VILLA -AFTERNOON 30

ELIO is on his bed wearing only a bathing suit. His right

hand is down inside his swim suit. He is tense, expectant,

alert to every sound. There are footsteps just outside hisdoor. OLIVER, shirtless, enters the room from the bathroom.

ELIO quickly pulls his bathing suit higher with a jerking

movement as if caught in an embarrassing position.

OLIVER:

Why aren’t you with the others at

the river?

ELIO is speechless, out of breath, says:

ELIO:

I’m... I’m... I have... an allergy.

OLIVER:

Me too. We might have the same one.

ELIO shrugs. A beat.

OLIVER (CONT’D)

Want to go for a swim? Just the two

of us?

ELIO:

(still out of breath)

Later, maybe.

OLIVER:

(extending his hand)

Let’s go now.

ELIO grabs his hand and turns on his side facing the wall,

away from OLIVER, to prevent him from seeing his confusion but

in his movement is also a slight tugging which could have

pulled OLIVER down on the bed.

ELIO:

Must we?

OLIVER straightens up, pauses again to look down, and still

grasping Elio’s hand, succeeds in pulling him upright.

21.

OLIVER:

I’m going to change. What about

you?

He leaves Elio’s room. ELIO puts his hand -the one Oliver

had been holding -down inside his bathing suit, finds it

damp, pulls it out, then hits his forehead with his fist

saying:
“Stupid! Stupid!”

He strips off the trunks and, naked and defiant, goes out

into the bathroom while grabbing a new pair of trunks.

31 INT. ELIO’S AND OLIVER’S BATHROOM -PERLMAN VILLA -AFTERNO3O1N

ELIO, while wearing his swimsuit, gets a glimpse of OLIVERnaked in his room.

OLIVER:

(calling out as he getsinto his bathing suit)

See you downstairs!

32 INT. STAIRCASE/BOCCHIRALE -PERLMAN VILLA -AFTERNOON 32

OLIVER comes down the stairs of the house followed by ELIO.

They are surprised to find CHIARA and MARZIA there. OLIVER

isn’t wearing any shirt and CHIARA makes a ball of thebillowy blue shirt he’d been wearing earlier and tosses it at

him. He puts it over the head of a bronze bust of Elio’s

grandmother.

CHIARA:

Enough now. We’re going to the

river and you’re coming.

There are a number of Professor Perlman’s loose papers lying

on a chair in the bocchirale [hallway]. OLIVER starts

gathering them up.

OLIVER:

Let me sort these papers out. Or

his father will skin me alive.

CHIARA:

(in French)

En parlant de peau, approche.

(Talking about skin, come here.)

She goes up to him and with her fingernails gently and slowly

tries to pull a sliver of peeling skin from his tanned

shoulder. ELIO watches with envy, wishing he was the onedoing that.

22.

CHIARA (CONT’D)

Tell his father that I crumpled his

papers. We'll see what he says

then..

He takes the Perlman papers to the study. While he’s goneCHIARA looks at Oliver’s manuscript lying on the chair.

CHIARA (CONT’D)

(shouting)

I could do a better job translating

than whoever this is.

OLIVER:

(returning)

Do you type good too?

CHIARA:

I type good.

OLIVER:

As good as you speak good?

CHIARA:

Bettah. And I’d give you a bettah

price too. Stand still.

She pulls another patch of skin off his shoulder. As she’s

doing this he stands very close to her.

OLIVER:

I need five pages translated per

day, to be ready for pickup every

morning.

Looking up at him.

CHIARA:

Then I won’t do nu’in for you.

Don’t move.

(she extracts another

patch from his arm)

Find yuh-sef somebuddy else.

She drops the bits of peeled-off skin into a plant.

MARZIA:

(in French)

Allons nous baigner.

(Let’s go swimming.)

ELIO:

Yeah, come on.

He hands OLIVER his sunglasses and hands him the red edition

of Lucretius, it was lying on a table and never leaves his

side.

23.

OLIVER:

(mumbled to Elio)

Thanks, Buddy.

There is an intimacy in these actions that ELIO both enjoys

and slightly flaunts. In return, CHIARA takes Oliver’s arm to

move him through the door, leaving the other two to follow.

As he leaves, OLIVER puts on his blue shirt.

33 EXT. RESTAURANT WITH DANCE FLOOR -NIGHT 33

A restaurant bar with an open air dancing floor. Everyone

dances. CHIARA does her sexy dancing for OLIVER, who is

enjoying himself and is a very good dancer. The music is“Paris Latino” by Bandolero.

ELIO goes back to their table with MARZIA and one or two of

the others. He watches CHIARA and OLIVER on the little dance

floor. She moves her thighs in between his. Their moves are

not the moves of people who stop at heavy petting.

MALE FRIEND # ONE

Ma ci sta provando? (Is he hitting

on her?)

MALE FRIEND # TWO

Ha già cuccato? (Are they doing it,

then?)

ELIO Che ne so. (I don’t care.)

MALE FRIEND # ONE

Quanto vorrei essere nei suoi

panni. (I’d love to be in his

shoes.)

FEMALE FRIEND # ONE

(to Marzia)

Chi non vorrebbe essere nei panni

di lei, piuttosto.. (Who wouldn’t

want to be in her shoes, I say..)

ELIO watches them dancing, thinks he’d give anything to be in

her shoes. MARZIA studies the look on his face. He pretendsto like watching them dance together.

MARZIA:

(to EVERYONE)

Lo vuole a tutti i costi, eh.

(She’s really after him, that’s

clear.)

The music changes, “Love my way” by Psychedelic Furs hits the

dance floor. At the sound of this song OLIVER changes his way

of dancing to a more self-obsessed style. A perfect new-wave

style.

24.

They all watch OLIVER’s solo act with surprise and amusement.

ELIO looks at him, mesmerized, until MARZIA pulls him back on

the dance floor. There is a strange energy and exchange of

glances between them.

Elio chooses not to be embarrassed and lets loose with a

sharp little solo of his own. The others applaud. Close on

Marzia amused.

34 EXT. RIVER -NIGHT 34

ELIO and MARZIA are at the river. They strip their clothes

off.

MARZIA:

(in french)

Tu n'es pas avec moiparce que tu es fâché contreChiara?

(You’re not with me because you’re

angry with Chiara?)

ELIO:

(in french)

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