VIFF: Call Me By Your Name is beautifully subtle Words by Rebecca Peng · 7 years, 8 months ago With accuracy and great beauty, Call Me By Your Name (CMBYN) captures the experience of a languid, over-long summer. It’s the 1980s, somewhere in idyllic Northern Italy. Oliver (Armie Hammer) is an American academic and guest in Elio Perlman's home.