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The “age gap”, present in Call Me by Your Name, is also present here - albeit one of fondness and one-sided infatuation. Part of what causes some people to disagree with or dislike Luca’s queer works is the flagrant truthfulness from which they are built. “The set up is, at times, so familiar to Call Me by Your Name that you half expect Elio and Oliver to walk into frame, like peripheral characters who’ve been frozen in time.” The set up is, at times, so familiar to Call Me by Your Name that you half expect Elio and Oliver to walk into frame, like peripheral characters who’ve been frozen in time. It’s like Euphoria on Valium Call Me by Your Name laced with licks of Larry Clark’s Kids. Instead, We Are Who We Are is meant to be viewed from afar: an atmospheric watercolour portrait of teenage outcasts, rebels and those raring to fit in, and it captures the spirit of that sensation so well. The conversations here are fleeting, and conflict is resolved almost without even being addressed. Some are playing Playstation and others are passionately kissing, and Frazer sits moping, and watching it all unfold. While the culture of late afternoon, al fresco wine-drinking seems alien to American kids, in the fourth episode, they dance and strip down to next to nothing in the weird, palatial setting of a white, luxury villa. There are few instances of these two juxtaposing lifestyles overlapping in the show.
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Over eight episodes, which unravel with no sense of urgency or traditional series arcs, we delve deeper into the world these kids are living in: rocky coastlines strangely clinical American supermarkets and stores built within the confines of the camp the slightly ethereal lure of Italian life, slow and languid, unfurling outside. There are a handful of directors who understand the potential and incandescence of youth in cinema: Céline Sciamma, Sean Baker, Barry Jenkins to name a few. That in itself is a testament to the grace and respect that Luca navigates these landscapes with. The notion of identity is deep-rooted and not up for debate: the idea that any of these things may be mere teenage phases is never put forth. As she explores her gender, Fraser explores his sexuality, socialising with a large group of kids who are, perhaps more internally, confronting similar obstacles: their race skirting the stereotypes of their gender the realities of growing up. A hard-working teenage girl, growing up under the guidance of a conservative father (Kid Cudi) whose views and influence she tries to abscond.
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Then there’s his neighbour, Caitlin Poythress, played by newcomer Jordan Kristine Seamón. He walks around the camp in streetwear, always wearing headphones, and frequently butts heads with his biological mother, played by Chloë Sevigny. Fraser, played by It star Jack Dylan Grazer, is a fiery, skittish kid who both yearns for attention and is happy being a weird outcast. It doesn’t scrutinise or demonise any of its young characters they just are. Queerness is part of the DNA of We Are Who We Are, a show that treats the complex identities of American teenagers growing up in a military camp in Italy with the kind of precious nonchalance its title suggests. This show does an exemplary job of showing that balance. It takes time and calculation for some, but life and growing up goes on around it. Queerness is not something to be ashamed of, and the director of HBO’s We Are Who We Are, the brilliant Luca Guadagnino, knows this - but the mere confrontation of the subject is a gnarly obstacle to overcome. They are often more coded: brief nervous glances in fear of overstepping boundaries. The meet-cutes aren’t limited to bars or coffee shops, or accidentally bumping into each other on the street. The signals of queerness in art are always more nuanced than what you are met with in standard, Americanised rom-coms.