The film was originally 4 hours long, so there are many scenes that had to be deleted and did not fit in the final cut.

A view of Mr. & Mrs. Perlman bedroom

One scene that ultimately didn’t make it into the finished film featured Elio’s parents sharing a private, affectionate moment, inspired by the conversation between Elio and Oliver outside.

During an interview, Timothée Chalamet was asked which deleted scene he most wished had remained in the movie. He chose the sequence involving Mr. and Mrs. Perlman, explaining that one of the reasons was the beautifully designed set, which audiences never got the chance to see on screen.

André Aciman had this to say about the scene: „I told the producers they were free to do what they wanted. The only thing I changed, was to strike down a scene where the parents were talking about Elio and Oliver’s relationship. I wanted the audience to know the father knew about them only in the scene where he discusses it with Elio, at the end of the movie. If not, it was anti-climactic.”

The following scene would have followed immediately after Marzia questioned Elio about their relationship

Elio’s gift to Oliver-Armance

„We rode our bicycles to town that morning.”

“In years to come, if the book was still in his possession, I wanted him to ache. Better yet, I wanted someone to look through his books one day, open up this tiny volume of Armance, and ask, ‘Tell me who was in silence, somewhere in Italy in the mid-eighties?’”

We see footage of this scene on set, where Elio gives Oliver the Armance book, with a message written inside. We see Oliver with the book at the breakfast table after the night they first make love. We would have understood more context if they had kept this scene when Elio gives Oliver the book.

Zwischen immer und nie – Poem by Paul Celan: