Premiere: We Are Who We Are

Date

Schedule

22:30–00:30

Place

Garage Screen summer cinema

DESCRIPTION

Eccentric and introverted teenager Fraser moves from New York to Italy with his two mothers who work in the military. Fraser associates the color khaki with a fashion collection by Raf Simons, and joining the army is the last thing he wants to do. At the military base, he meets the confident tomboy Caitlin, and despite their very different characters, the two become friends. The eight-episode We Are Who We Are is the miniseries debut by the Italian director Luca Guadagnino, nominated for Oscar for his feature Call Me by Your Name. Exploring the burgeoning sexuality of two teenagers from both perspectives (episodes alternate between Fraser and Caitlin) against the US presidential election of 2016, We Are Who We Are promises to become the main television event of the autumn. Garage Screen will present the Russian premiere of the first two episodes in the series. Admission will be free with advance registration. 

Despite the narrative and stylistic parallels drawn by viewers based on the trailer, Guadagnino insists that his miniseries is very different from Call Me by Your Name: the feature looked back at the events of the past, whereas We Are Who We Are is devoted to "the bodies and souls of now." Its intonation, visual style, and multiethnic casting bring We Are Who We Are—produced for HBO—closer to the other youth-and-adult projects of the network, such as the much-vaunted Euphoria or the recent skate dramedy Betty. But everything the audiences loved about Guadagnino's adaptation of André Aciman—the new wave of the 1980s, the trusting relationships between generations, the timid adolescent infatuation—is still there in the miniseries.

With an airy piano soundtrack by Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) and many one-shot takes, the series feels dynamic and easy to watch. Mixing poetry by authors as far removed in time and as close in spirit as Walt Whitman and young Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong, the series features the celebrities of now (American indie icon Chloe Sevigny and rapper Kid Cudi) along with future stars Jack Dylan Grazer (It, Shazam!) and Jordan Kristine Seamon, who makes her acting debut in the auteur series that might very well become a new teenage phenomenon.

The screening has been organized in collaboration with more.tv

We Are Who We Are
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Italy, US, 2020. 111 min. 18+

tickets

Free admission with advance registration.

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