Luca Guadagnino’s ‘We Are Who We Are’ Bows in Its Entirety at San Sebastian

The San Sebastian audience became the first in the world to see all eight episodes of Luca Guadagnino’s HBO and Sky Italy’s eight-part series “We Are Who We Are.”The second episode of the series aired on HBO in America this week.

The media had only received the first four episodes to review in advance.

Thus, it was at San Sebastian Film Festival, where Guadagnino is president of the competition jury, that the acclaimed director fully unveiled what he calls “my new movie” to the world.At a press conference in San Sebastian, Luca Guadagnino revealed that he sees “We Are Who We Are” as a film rather than a series, that he used digital technology to give the story a contemporary aesthetic and the show is an American “Paradise Lost,” signaled by the election of President Trump.

He also weighed in on the new Academy Award qualification rules.

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