In particular, how the formative, fragile Fraser’s connects to Caitlin (Jordan Kristine Seamón), the girl next door, who is beginning to wonder if she is really a girl after all. Guadagnino is a master of slow, meditative coming-of-age stories and We Are Who We Are allows him to stretch his novelistic form out across eight hours, as he explores sexuality, nationality, attachment – the effect of shifting cultures on the formative identities of a group of military teenagers. Intelligently conceived, beautifully executed and filled with surprisingly convincing performances all around (Sage creates an aura of quiet menace that is impossible to shake and Childers and. He, along with other teens, have to handle. However, it creates an atmosphere of dampness and dread that is genuinely convincing and is far more unnerving in the end that any amount of fake blood. There he finds it hard to fit in, but finds himself drawn to another Army brat named Caitlin. The first one, Fraser Wilson, has just move there with his mothers, both Army officers. His mother Sarah (Chloë Sevigny, excellent) is the new commander at a US Army base in Chioggia outside Venice, and has uprooted her wife and son from New York City to set up temporary, strange home in the tiny, fake, American town ruled by salutes and seagulls a subculture of authority and discipline and respect, all of which Fraser flagrantly defies. An HBO miniseries, the show focuses on two American kids living on a US Army base in Italy.

It is extremely difficult to like – or have any warmth whatsoever – toward the teenage protagonist of We Are Who We Are, the first television series from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino.įraser is obnoxious, selfish, disobedient, regularly drunk, and violent toward his mother, though unlike other adolescents of similar temperament at least Fraser has a reason to be unhappy.

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