Fresh from victory at the 90th Academy Awards for best adapted screenplay, director Luca Guadagnino’s beautiful film Call Me By Your Name is set in the northern Italian town of Crema and surrounding countryside. “Crema has a sense of timelessness that I like, but I also think that it is quintessentially Italian without being an idea of Italy,” said Guadagnino, who, for years, lived nearby.
“It’s just Italy. A lot of these Hollywood movies made in Italy look as fake as a chocolate coin. It’s a danger I don’t want to risk. For me it’s important you make the thing that looks the most correct and the most real.” If you’ve seen Call Me By Your Name, chances are you’ve been captivated by the movie’s setting (well, besides the characters and delicate love story), and that you’ve been inspired to visit this area of Italy, little-known by tourist standards up until now.
