(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 03 - A rite of passage between childhood and adulthood, that hybrid lapse of time in which one is no longer children but not yet grown-up boys. "The strength of Luca Guadagnino's first series (license plate Sky and HBO, produced by the Italian companies The Apartment and Wildside) lies in the power of the themes dealt with and in its consolidated ability to find incredible talents: "We Are Who We Are" lands on Friday 9 October at 9.15 pm on Sky Atlantic. that we are, applies to the protagonists and other characters, adults, but also for the spectators.
Set in an American military base in Italy, We AreWho We Are is a story that sees Fraser (Jack Dylan Grazer) and Caitlin (Jordan Kristine Seamón) at the center of the scene, two 14-year-olds grappling with the discoveries and doubts of adolescence.
Around them a cast of actors (among these Francesca Scorsese, daughter of Martin) to whom the screenplay (by Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri) approaches without stereotypes: for example, the two mothers of Fraser, Maggie and Sarah (respectively played by Alice Braga and Chloë Sevigny), both work in the army and have surprising developments.
The series is set in 2016, right in the middle of Donald Trump's escalation in the US presidential elections.
"The effects - explains the director - are still felt right here, right now".
"I like to call it a" film "in eight acts, thinking that We Are Who We Are is a sort of human comedy that tells how, nowadays, a group of expatriates in a military base lives their idiosyncrasies, enevrous desires in a sort of bubble where everything has been reproduced. I
tell a world that reflects who we are today. I propose to set it in a micro-America, the basics are all alike, "he explains.
Then the revelation that he was influenced by Amy Adams: "I once had a conversation and she told me that she spent part of her childhood in Vicenza, on a base in Italy".
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