Call Me by Your Name Page #2

ELIO:

I can show you around.

OLIVER:

Good. Are we far from the town? I

need to open a bank account.

Both Professor PERLMAN and ANNELLA look up, interested.

PERLMAN:

(smiling)

None of our residents has ever had

a local bank account.

Elio turns in his seat to get a better view of Oliver, who is

sitting beside him.

ELIO:

Should I take him to Montodine?

PERLMAN:

I’m think they’re closed for summer

vacation. Try Crema.

OLIVER:

Is that your orchard?

PERLMAN:

Pesca, ciliege, albicocche...

(peaches, cherries, apricots...)

5.

ANNELLA:

Pomegranate.

MAFALDA returns with a pitcher of apricot juice on a little

tray and proceeds to fill Oliver’s glass. OLIVER tastes it,

then enthusiastically downs it. ELIO realizes he is staring

at OLIVER, his head tipped back with his throat swallowingthe juice, and notices the Star of David on a necklace around

his neck. OLIVER smacks his lips and begins to eat his second

egg, giving it a sharp crack. MAFALDA brings him a third egg.

ANNELLA (CONT’D)

Have another egg.

OLIVER:

(shaking his head)

I know myself. If I have three,

I’ll have a fourth, and more.

ELIO has never heard someone Oliver’s age say, I know myself.

It’s somewhat intimidating. He lowers his eyes.

11 INT. PROFESSOR PERLMAN’S STUDY -PERLMAN VILLA -DAY 11

PERLMAN is attempting to devise a new filing system for his

correspondence; there are packs of letters lying about and

open boxes with more letters. OLIVER is helping him, ELIO is

with them. The professor makes a joking comment like "Myguest from last year was very good at organizing. I on the

other hand...”

NARRATOR:

Taking a summer guest for six weeks

is the way Professor helps young

academics revise a manuscript

before publication. They are given

full run of the house and can

basically use their time as they

like, provided they help Professor

Perlman for an hour or so every day

with his correspondence and other

paperwork.

ANNELLA enters carrying a little tray with a pitcher of more

apricot juice which she pours out into glasses. Everyone has

some; OLIVER downs his in a gulp. He smacks his lips, says

“Ah!”. Annella looks at him amused and gives him an approving

pat on the shoulder. Elio looks at his father, alreadyknowing what he’ll say.

PERLMAN:

The word apricot comes from the

Arabic -it’s like the words

“algebra”, “alchemy”, and

“alcohol”. It derives from an

Arabic noun combined with the

Arabic article ‘al-’ before it.

(MORE)

6.

PERLMAN (CONT'D)

The origin of our Italian‘albicocca’ was ‘al-barquq’...

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