“In We Are What We Are, first time Mexican helmer Jorge Michel Grau creates a deeply unsettling portrait of contemporary Mexican urban life which steady grows into many things all at once: a sincere family drama, an earnest exploration of the moral implications of cannibalism and a ribald satire of the seemingly intractable political and economic corruption that is haunting present day Mexico. All moody nighttime vistas and grim, claustrophobic interiors, Grau’s film manages both social commentary and grisly, bone-chilling terror the old-fashioned way, but it still manages to have a depth of human feeling that isn’t the stock and trade of this type of genre fare.” —Filmmaker Magazine
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE / SOMOS LO QUE HAY
A film by Jorge Michel Grau
(Mexico, 2010, 90 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Now streaming on Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+
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