Movie Review

'We Are Who We Are' is a relatable coming-of-age flick for troubled teens

The show explores what it feels like to be a teenager in a strange world

07 March 2021 - 00:00 By tymon smith

Italian director Luca Guadagnino has a talent for examining the experiences of foreigners thrown onto the strange soil of his native Italy. In films like A Bigger Splash and Call Me by Your Name, Guadagnino established himself as a master of capturing the evocative beauty of Italian summers thrown into emotional turmoil by the arrival of precocious, brash outsiders who exude a simmering existential melancholy. His films are languidly observed, poetic tales of characters in search of identity, struggling against the forces of change that creep up on them...

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