But We Are Who We Are doesn’t lose sight of how desperately some grown-ups wish they could do the same - and how easily they can hurt their children and partners in the process.Those hoping the filmmaker, Luca Guadagnino would be concentrating on the ‘Call Me By Your Name’ sequel will have to wait a little longer the ‘Suspira’ filmmaker is heading to HBO to get behind their new series ‘We Are Who We Are’.Īs well as directing the first two episodes and the finale, Guadagnino is writing the project alongside Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri. This seems natural for the kids, who are at an age where identities can still be easily tried on and discarded if they don’t fit. For the characters, all lines seem as blurry as the one between Italy and America: who your parent is and how you should treat each other, whom you love and whom you only lust after, and how you define your sexuality and/or gender, among many other things. The commissary has Domino’s and KFC, but the whole place feels alien to Fraser, who whines, “Americans can only be happy in America.” “This is America,” Sarah’s wife Maggie (Alice Braga) argues, not sounding entirely convinced herself. The base is an attempt to recreate local comforts in a foreign land, with mixed results. The core of the story is the friendship between newcomer Fraser (Jack Dylan Grazer), a 14-year-old would-be fashion designer whose mother Sarah (Chloë Sevigny), a colonel, has arrived to assume command of the base, and Caitlin (Jordan Kristine Seamón), a cool kid whose lower-ranking father Richard (Kid Cudi) resents that he now has to take orders from a lesbian. Army base in Italy in 2016, the limited series follows a group of interconnected teens and adults who all used to be one thing or another, and are struggling to figure out who and what they’ve become.

Jenny’s dilemma is one that applies to every character in We Are Who We Are, a lyrical coming-of-age drama from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino. Truth is, I don’t know who I am anymore.” “I used to be a lot of things,” Army wife Jenny (Faith Alabi) admits.

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