A serious drama about a family of Mexican cannibals struggling to survive after the death of their patriarch? Not again…
Of course, I jest. This flick, called SOMOS LO QUE HAY (WE ARE WHAT WE ARE), looks pretty fresh – in every sense of the word. (Yeah, I still use it that way, so what?) Twitchfilm has excitedly been pimping it for months, and based on their exclusive trailer (embedded below), I can now get on the same bandwagon.
Here’s the synopsis for the flick, which will premiere at the Directors Fortnight in Cannes: A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge – how to survive. For they are cannibals. They have always existed on a diet of human flesh consumed in bloody ritual ceremonies… and the victims have always been provided by the father. Now that he is gone, who will hunt? Who will lead them? How will they slake their horrific hunger? The task falls to the eldest son, Alfredo, a teenage misfit who seems far from ready to accept the challenge… But without human meat the family will die.
Shocking, bloody and deeply moving, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE is a remarkable reinvention of the horror genre – a visceral and powerfully emotional portrait of a family bound by a terrible secret hunger and driven by monstrous appetites.
Jorge Michel Grau directed the film, which will hopefully get a release date soon after (or even during) Cannes.