In Teen Drama 'We Are Who We Are,' We're Still Figuring Out Who We Are
Director Luca Guadagnino brings his searching, emotionally intimate sensibility to HBO with this series about two American kids on a military base in Italy.
by Glen Weldon
Sep 14, 2020
2 minutes
The first episode of Luca Guadagnino's opens the way his film closes: in extended close-up of a young man's face. In the 2017 movie, the face belonged to Elio (Timothee Chalamet), who stared into the fireplace, wracked with sobs as he nurses his first heartbreak. In the eight-episode HBO series, which Guadagnino directs and co-writes (with Paolo Giordano and Francesca
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