Passes the Bechdel test

Call Me by Your Name

Name: Call Me by Your Name
Released: 2018

2018. Directed by Luca Guadagnino, written by James Ivory and André Aciman.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
5 women characters. 4 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 143.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

The film

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It's the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old young man, spends his days in his family's 17th-century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio's sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American college graduate student working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Released: 19 Jan 2018
Genres: Drama, Romance
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.8 / 10
Metascore: 94 / 100
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 107 wins & 263 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Elio 212 lines, man
Oliver 211 lines, man
Perlman 72 lines, man
Annella 39 lines, woman
Marzia 39 lines, woman
Chiara 16 lines, woman
Mafalda 8 lines, woman
Narrator 6 lines
Anchise 5 lines, man
Maria 3 lines

Full cast, 12 people

Timothée Chalamet as Elio
Armie Hammer as Oliver
Michael Stuhlbarg as Mr. Perlman
Amira Casar as Annella
Esther Garrel as Marzia
Victoire du Bois as Chiara
Vanda Capriolo as Mafalda
Antonio Rimoldi as Anchise
Elena Bucci as Bambi
Marco Sgrosso as Nico
André Aciman as Mounir
Peter Spears as Isaac

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 143

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	2	2
4 to 6	0	4
7 to 9	0	5
10 to 12	6	21
13 to 15	0	17
16 to 18	0	11
19 to 21	4	6
22 to 24	5	9
25 to 27	0	16
28 to 30	0	17
31 to 33	9	8
34 to 36	5	14
37 to 39	3	13
40 to 42	0	5
43 to 45	0	6
46 to 48	0	0
49 to 51	4	4
52 to 54	0	0
55 to 57	0	47
58 to 60	0	43
61 to 63	2	17
64 to 66	16	8
67 to 69	2	17
70 to 72	0	19
73 to 75	0	2
76 to 78	3	8
79 to 81	19	11
82 to 84	0	7
85 to 87	2	8
88 to 90	2	3
91 to 93	1	0
94 to 96	0	4
97 to 99	0	1
100 to 102	0	7
103 to 105	0	25
106 to 108	0	5
109 to 111	0	16
112 to 114	1	17
115 to 117	0	10
118 to 120	1	4
121 to 123	5	7
124 to 126	0	0
127 to 129	0	9
130 to 132	0	5
133 to 135	6	3
136 to 138	1	3
139 to 141	1	36
142 to 143	2	0

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

MAFALDA: Lasci fare a me, Signore. ANNELLA: Did you recover from your trip, caro?

CHIARA: Then I won’t do nu’in for you. Don’t move. Find yuh-sef somebuddy else. MARZIA: Allons nous baigner.

ANNELLA: N’est il pas sorti? MAFALDA: Signora vuole un frullato pure lei? ANNELLA: No grazie Mafalda, ceniamo tra poco.

ANNELLA: Not in here! MARZIA: Tu es encore malade?

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 17 are women's.

102 lines from women, 500 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

5 women and 7 men in the cast. 4 women and 4 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 617. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 106 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 16% of the words (1,076), men 84% (5,534). Women have 17% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

1 of the 16 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 27% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Luca Guadagnino (man)
Written by: James Ivory (man)
From the novel by: André Aciman (man)
Produced by: Rodrigo Teixeira (man), Marco Morabito (man), Peter Spears (man), Luca Guadagnino (man), Emilie Georges (woman), James Ivory (man) and 1 more
Shot by: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (man)
Edited by: Walter Fasano (man)
Music by: Sufjan Stevens (man)
Production design by: Samuel Deshors (man)
Costumes by: Giulia Piersanti (gender not listed)
Cast by: Stella Savino (gender not listed)