Scenes of faintly reckless teenage behavior (day drinking, public makeouts) are bathed in flaxen light and softly arpeggiating melodies. We Are Who We Are does the same, often by the same pentimento techniques. The series, set on a US military base near Venice, is a thematic extension of the Italian director’s Oscar-winning Call Me By Your Name, a film that took the excruciating awkwardness of coming of age and re-brushed it as something beguilingly romantic. We Are Who We Are, the new HBO series from Luca Guadagnino, stars newcomer Jordan Kristine Seamón as a 14-year-old girl on the edge of puberty and Kid Cudi as her selectively progressive father, who seems to prefer his daughter to his son, even buying her a Make America Great Again hat to match his own. Spoilers ahead for We Are Who We Are Season 1 Episode 2.
