youth hurts
The last time Luca Guadagnino took on adolescent angst, the result was 2017’s Oscar-winning Call Me By Your Name, with Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer. So you could be forgiven for having sky-high expectations for We Are Who We Are, Guadagnino’s first foray into television. An HBO-Sky co-production (albeit showing on BBC Three in the UK), this eight-episode miniseries moves slightly east – from Call Me…’s Crema setting to Padua in Italy’s Veneto region – for a story set on a US military base.
The primary focus deals with blossoming sexuality, as well as issues of gender identity and fluidity. The kids want to party, fight, love, shout, scream… all while their parents are pledging allegiance to the flag.
