Lend Me Your Name

A tempest of mistaken identities and emotional disarray unfolds in *Lend Me Your Name*, a 1920s romantic comedy that marries farcical tension with the quiet dignity of human folly. The Earl of Gilleigh, a man whose gastronomic woes are compounded by the imminent return of his volcanic spouse Sophronia, discovers his solitude shattered by the arrival of his cadgent brother Warren Ellis. Their hasty pact to swap identities spirals into a labyrinth of romantic misadventures: Warren, under the Earl’s name, becomes entranced by the pastoral grace of shepherdess Rosalind, while Sophronia’s arrival at the country estate triggers a cascade of jealousy and self-realization. The film’s deft interplay of class, desire, and mistaken identity culminates in a resolution where both men—masked by duty and longing—find unexpected redemption in the chaos of their own contrivances.