The intimacy between Timothée Chalamet’s Elio, 17, and his father’s grad student assistant, played by Armie Hammer, is implied and suggested rather than explicitly shown–almost until the end.

Gekko is a money-obsessed character, with no issues of ethics or morality, because they are simply irrelevant.

The tale is based on a 1980s and 1990s real-life story of con artist, impostor and multiple prison escapee Steven Jay Russell, played by Jim Carrey in one of his strongest performances.