After taking on the remake of La Piscine with his film A Bigger Splash and being celebrated worldwide for his poignant work in Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino is back on the scene with an eight-episode mini-series. Entitled We Are Who We Are, the show follows the trials and tribulations of Fraser Wilson and Caitlin Harper, two fourteen-year-olds who meet on an American military base in the heart of Italy. Fraser, a distracted young man, has just arrived from New York with his two mothers, and is trying to adjust to his new life. Caitlin, meanwhile, has been living in Italy for years. A bit of an outsider, she's always kept to the margins of the group of teens on-base. Fraser and Caitlin's meeting is friendship-at-first-sight, as together they take on the difficult task of constructing their identity during adolescence.
In the official teaser released by HBO, actors Jack Dylan Grazer and Jordan Kristine Seamón are linked by a sparkling chemistry. The two young performers are also backed up by an ensemble that's as eclectic as it is prestigious: featuring the iconic Chloe Sevigny, The City of God's Alice Braga, rapper Kid Cudi and even Francesca Scorcese, the famed director's daughter. With this new project, the filmmaker dives back into the kind of immersive ambiance that distinguished Call Me By Your Name, and once again examines one of his work's central themes — adolescence, and the confusing feelings that often accompany it.
We Are Who We Are, co-written by writers Francesca Manieri (Italian series Il Miracolo) and Paolo Giardano (The Solitude of Prime Numbers), premiers September 14 on US platform HBO Max, and in France on OCS. The perfect series for back-to-school!