VIFF: Call Me By Your Name is beautifully subtle By Rebecca Peng · Oct. 17, 2017, 8:28 p.m. 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.