Blog: Call Me By Your Name

The Multilingualness of 'Call Me By Your Name'

This post was written in en

I've seen the movie, Call Me By Your Name featuring Arnie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet a few times since it came out. Not only is it a queer film which I love but a film that includes multilingual characters. What I melt inside of happiness when multiple languages are spoken in a movie. We hear English, Italian and French. One minute you hear French, then the same character will switch to English or Italian often times in the same scene. I find this very beautiful as someone who can speak multiple romantic languages. The code switching in my opinion is pretty good. Not to brag but it helps to know a few romantic languages to understand the others. I speak English, Spanish and French, fluently. I can for the most part understand Italian since there is so much cross over and there is so much cultural cross-context that I understand. I honestly turn off the subtitles when I watch this movie and others because I don't feel the need to see the translation. The movie is a lot more meaningful to me because I can understand the subtleties of the languages and how people express themselves in such languages.

Movies and TV shows that can switch between languages are so cool!