We Are What We Are (Spanish: Somos lo que hay) is a 2010 Mexican horror film directed by Jorge Michel Grau. A stand-alone sequel to Cronos (1993), the film is about a family who, after the death of the father, try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition. [2].
The tricky balance of the Mexican cannibal drama "We Are What We Are" ("Somos lo que hay") involves its pairing of a conventional family unit with ludicrously grotesque proclivities. Doing for an impoverished Mexican family what " Let the Right One In " did for Swedish kids in puberty, Jorge Michel Grau 's " We Are What We Are " reps a skillfully mannered genre. Jorge Michel Grau's debut feature We Are What We Are is a Mexican cannibal tale that has drawn many comparisons with Let the Right One In, and although this may be slightly unfair as they are both very different and worthy of merit in their own right I can see where the comparison comes from.
The horror aspect, here cannibalism, is secondary to the main themes of the story, that of isolation. Read the Empire Movie review of We Are What We Are. Surely cinema's first Mexican social-realist cannibal horror drama, it's grimly funny and at times.
Somos lo que hay (We Are What We Are). 2010. Mexico.
Written and directed by Jorge Michel Grau. With Carmen Beato, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Paulina Gaitán. In Spanish; English subtitles.
35mm. 90 min. Jorge Michel Grau's debut feature, We Are What We Are is a startlingly bleak film about a Mexican family addicted to eating human flesh.
Although it's never revealed why or how their. We Are What We Are will be released on Blu-ray on August 26 via IFC. Known in Spanish as Somos lo que hay, the 2010 Mexican cannibal film is written and directed by Jorge Michel Grau (The ABCs of Death).
Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitán, Carmen Beato, Humberto Yáñez, and Jorge Zárate star. Daniel Giménez Cacho reprises his role as Tito the Coroner from Guillermo del Toro. We Are What We Are is a film directed by Jorge Michel Grau with Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitan, Carmen Beato.
Year: 2010. Original title: Somos lo que hay (We Are What We Are). This Mexican film (in Spanish) has it all when it comes to Cannibal Studies.
When we discuss cannibalism, we think of sacrificial rituals, or people starving, or maybe just psychogenic appetites. We Are What We Are is a 2010 Mexican horror film directed by Jorge Michel Grau. A stand-alone sequel to Cronos (1993), the film is about a family who, after the death of the father, try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition.
The film stars Paulina Gaitán and Daniel Giménez Cacho, the latter of whom reprises his role from Cronos.