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Hillel, LGBT Center Provide Tickets to Showing of ‘Call Me By Your Name’
< < Back toLuca Guadagnino’s critically acclaimed coming-of-age romantic drama, Call Me By Your Name, (based on the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman,) is coming to the Athena Cinema on Friday, January 19, and on Sunday, January 21, the first 100 tickets to the 7:30 p.m. showing will be FREE thank you to the generous sponsorship of Hillel and Ohio University LGBT Center. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-serve basis, starting the day of the showing. Screening will be followed by a panel discussion exploring the film’s theme of intersecting LGBTQ and Jewish identities.
Free admission only applies to the first 100 patrons to this particular showing.
The film is the third and final installment in Guadagnino’s thematic Desire trilogy, which is made up of 2009’s I Am Love and 2015’s A Bigger Splash. Call Me By Your Name is set in gorgeous 1983 Northern Italy, where Elio Perlman (played by Timothée Chalet) develops romantic feelings for his father’s assistant, Oliver (played by Armie Hammer). The film also stars Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, and Victoire Du Bois.