We Are What We Are
Young. Wild. Hungry.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 26, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paulina Gaitan & Daniel Giménez Cacho | |
Performer: | Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chavez, Carmen Beato, Jorge Zarate & Esteban Soberanes | |
Directed by | Jorge Michel Grau | |
Screenwriting by | Jorge Michel Grau | |
Composition by | Enrico Chapela | |
Director of Photography: | Santiago Sanchez |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/5 --
The characters' rapacious tendencies exist in a void, so all we get is numbing, meaningless viscera.
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Time Out
Rating: B --
Grau effectively mixes wry, bloody, deadpan gags, family drama, and stomach-churning violence.
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AV Club
A competent barebones transfer of a horror film that deserves to win a wider audience among the Netflix crowd.
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Slant Magazine
Deftly balancing a horror premise with the politics of a family drama, We Are What We Are is utterly refreshing.
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Exquisite Terror
[A]n unexpectedly rich exploration of family bonds...played out with a sharp undertow of political allegory and darkly comic sensibility.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: B- --
Grau equates his cannibal family much like Tobe Hooper's Texas clan - as disenfranchised poor people living on the fringes of society struggling with their own familial power structure.
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Reeling Reviews
Rating: 3.5/5 --
An unexpectedly rich exploration of family bonds, blood rituals and the oftentimes zombie-like desire to assume the roles proscribed to each of us, played out with a sharp undertow of political allegory and darkly comic sensibility.
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Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Three teenagers are wary about holding up a rather disturbing family tradition in this unusual blend of horror, suspense, and family drama. Alfredo (Francisco Barreiro), Julian (Alan Chávez), and Sabina (Paulina Gaitan) live with their father (Humberto Yáñez) and mother (Carmen Beato) in a run-down section of Mexico City. When father dies unexpectedly during a visit to a shopping mall, it throws the family into chaos, but not just for the usual reasons. The family has an unusual custom in which father would capture a stranger and bring them home, after which the family would kill the stranger in an elaborate ritual and then eat their flesh. With father gone, mother insists that it's time the children stepped up and took over the rite, but Alfredo is too timid to find a proper victim, Julian is bold but too clumsy, and Sabina is thought to be poorly suited for what's always been a man's job. As the brothers try to learn to do things the way dad once did, a police detective (Jorge Zárate) is trying to get to the bottom of a long string of disappearances in the area. The first feature film from writer and director Jorge Michel Grau, SOMOS LO QUE HAY (aka WE ARE WHAT WE ARE) was also one of the final films for Alan Chávez, who played Julian; he died in September 2009 at the age of 18 when an argument with friends led to gunfire.
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- UPC: 030306932798
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