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Shocking, bloody and deeply affecting, We Are What We Are is a visceral and powerful portrait of a family bound by a monstrous secret. When a middle-aged man dies in the street, his devastated family is left in crisis: for their patriarch has always provided the human flesh on which they feed. Now he is gone, they are left with a terrible dilemma who will lead their hunt for victims and how will they sate their terrible hunger?
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Shown in the Director's Fortnight strand of the Cannes Film Festival 2010, Jorge Michel Grau's independently produced, envelope-pushing shocker was acclaimed as "the Mexican Let The Right One In". A middle-aged man dies in the middle of a shopping mall leaving his widow, two sons and daughter destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only by their terrible loss, but also a massive challenge. For they are cannibals, driven to eat human flesh because of poverty rife in the Latin American urban jungle. To justify their diet they surround their mealtimes in ritual blood ceremonies. But who will provide the victims now their father has gone? Who will trawl the city looking for life's flotsam, losers, prostitutes and junkies? The task falls to the eldest son Alfredo to slake the family's hunger. Yet he's far from ready to accept the challenge especially as he carries another secret all his own. ...We Are What We Are (2010) ( Somos lo que hay ) ( Nous sommes ce que nous sommes )
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Simply excellent horror movie from Mexico, gruesome, frightening, smart and scary without ever going over the top or being heavy-handed. One of the best this year thus far.
Disc also fine, brilliant picture quality, correct aspect ratio.
Disc also fine, brilliant picture quality, correct aspect ratio.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
On the strength of good reviews [Sight & Sound's Film Of The Month... have to dig that issue out again and see what that was all about], and having missed its release in London cinemas, I snapped this up on Blu-Ray. I wish I'd rented now.
Many things that can often be strengths in an intelligent horror film are present and correct, but some vital spark is missing. The result is that the film's inert, a bit predictable and boring. The one-note characterisations grate, and don't go anywhere, and the film's murky and unpleasant-looking. But not in a particularly interesting way.
An average, very mildly interesting film that's being oversold to an audience hungry for intelligent horror.
Many things that can often be strengths in an intelligent horror film are present and correct, but some vital spark is missing. The result is that the film's inert, a bit predictable and boring. The one-note characterisations grate, and don't go anywhere, and the film's murky and unpleasant-looking. But not in a particularly interesting way.
An average, very mildly interesting film that's being oversold to an audience hungry for intelligent horror.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a film about cannibals set in Mexico and has been described as `a cannibal gore fest', which I think it probably isn't.
It starts out with a very weird middle aged man dieing in a shopping mall, from being poisoned. He is the patriarch of a family with a secret pact, in that they survive on the flesh of humans. The Father has `an addiction to whores' and a spooky love of shop window mannequins, so far so good.
When his family realise he is dead they suffer an emotional crisis. First he provided all the `food' and second they need a new leader. The mother is full of contempt for the eldest son, but the daughter knows he should become leader.
The police get involved when human parts are found in the stomach of the dead father and the hunt is on.
This is the tale of how the family try to pull together with internal strife and woefully inadequate attempts at doing the `shopping, and the goods they try to get. It is strangely touching and the cannibals are portrayed as very ordinary people. They do not posses the super human strength we have seen in many a representation of horror in recent times. That was much appreciated as they have to pit themselves against folk who are weaker than themselves.
This is a bloody trip with realistic gore, but not through out. It has a 15 certificate and so has pulled a few punches, but not many. It is not sexy or moody but it is atmospheric and very real, which I feel are its strong points. It has a run time of 90 minutes which does fly by and it has more twists than your average film. In Spanish (Mexican) with English subtitles, I found this a great small budget film, if your tastes are a bit off the beaten track, I am sure you will enjoy this production; if you prefer the more Hollywood horror slasher fests, then this will disappoint.
It starts out with a very weird middle aged man dieing in a shopping mall, from being poisoned. He is the patriarch of a family with a secret pact, in that they survive on the flesh of humans. The Father has `an addiction to whores' and a spooky love of shop window mannequins, so far so good.
When his family realise he is dead they suffer an emotional crisis. First he provided all the `food' and second they need a new leader. The mother is full of contempt for the eldest son, but the daughter knows he should become leader.
The police get involved when human parts are found in the stomach of the dead father and the hunt is on.
This is the tale of how the family try to pull together with internal strife and woefully inadequate attempts at doing the `shopping, and the goods they try to get. It is strangely touching and the cannibals are portrayed as very ordinary people. They do not posses the super human strength we have seen in many a representation of horror in recent times. That was much appreciated as they have to pit themselves against folk who are weaker than themselves.
This is a bloody trip with realistic gore, but not through out. It has a 15 certificate and so has pulled a few punches, but not many. It is not sexy or moody but it is atmospheric and very real, which I feel are its strong points. It has a run time of 90 minutes which does fly by and it has more twists than your average film. In Spanish (Mexican) with English subtitles, I found this a great small budget film, if your tastes are a bit off the beaten track, I am sure you will enjoy this production; if you prefer the more Hollywood horror slasher fests, then this will disappoint.
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Jorge Grau is a director to watch
Cannibals "Let the Right One In"? Absolutely not. Something new? To a point, yes. For me, it was a film of two halves with the first half working better, not as a cannibal film,... Read more
Published 5 months ago by BPR
We are a Very Bad Movie
Absolutely atrocious film and really not what I was expecting. The blurb I read seemed to suggest the movie was a serious piece of filmmaking examining the way of life of a family... Read more
Published 7 months ago by KH
This IS what it IS - a subtle drama about cannibals
Billed as a 'cannibal gore-fest' on the cover, this definitely is not. It so isn't, but what it is, is a clever drama about cannibals, with very little cannibalism in it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by T. BROOKES
A real disappointment.
As We Are What We Are begins, an old man is seen walking about a shopping mall in Mexico and leering at shop window dummies... Read more
Published 13 months ago by DVDfever
Not what I expected
I read the last two reviews and had mixed opinions about it all. I found the movie to be quite boring. Read more
Published 13 months ago by digweed
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