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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.
Caitlin (Jordan Kristine Seamon) and Fraser (Jack Dylan Grazer) see the sea in <em>We Are Who We Are.</em>

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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