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We Are What We Are

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Director(s)	Jorge Michel Grau
Release Date	2010
Work In Progress	No
Runtime	99 min
Format(s)	none
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	No

Film Description

“[A] funny gross-out about a Mexican family of cannibals, which delivers its gore with modest chomping and its political allegory more bluntly.” -Manohla Dargis, the New York Times.

The sudden death of its patriarch leaves a Mexican clan bereft, panicked about their survival, and fumbling to continue a family tradition—namely, a cannibalistic rite that involves the hunting and gathering of fresh human meat in present-day Mexico City.

As the widow and her three teenage children grow increasingly desperate, the young director Jorge Michel Grau combines slow-burning suspense with simmering sexual tension and a queasy sense of mystery: the belief system behind what the family calls “the ritual” is never fully explained. A potent and tremendously assured first feature, We Are What We Are packs the allegorical and visceral punch of the best vintage horror. An IFC Films release.

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Last Updated On:	October 20, 2010