"elio, oliver. oliver, elio." "how you doing?""nice to meet you. elio."recocious 17-year-old and a visiting grad student share a memorable summer in northern italy in "call me by your name.""so what do you do around here?" "read books, transcribe music, swim in the river, go out at night.""sounds fun. all right, later."to play the musically and linguistically talented "elio," timothee chalamet (shall-a-may) arrived on location in crema, italy, six weeks before shooting began."i had to schedule, set up in advance, with an hour and a half of piano lessons every day, an hour and a half of italian lessons, guitar lessons every day...""i was like 'hey, timmy, you wanna hang out?' and he's like 'man, i do, but i got an hour of piano and then i gotta do an hour of italian, and then i gotta go to this and that, and then, and blah blah blah...' and i was like 'all right, well, i'm gonna go ride my bike around, and kind of shoot the for a while, try to talk to the locals in my bad italian and call me when you're done!'""that's very much what it was like!" (laugh) a