Some are playing Playstation and others are passionately kissing, and Frazer sits moping, and watching it all unfold. The conversations here are fleeting, and conflict is resolved almost without even being addressed. 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. It’s like Euphoria on Valium Call Me by Your Name laced with licks of Larry Clark’s Kids. “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.
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 “age gap”, present in Call Me by Your Name, is also present here - albeit one of fondness and one-sided infatuation.