Quando eravamo fratelli

Peter Debruge

Words matter. This week, the United States president called a woman a "dog," in an attempt to reduce her to something contemptible and subhuman. Meanwhile, in the country's most fortunate art houses, meticulously scripted, micro-budgeted Sundance discovery "We the Animals" flips such language on its head, deploying the word "animals" not as an epithet but as a mark of uncommon empowerment as it celebrates the complicated identity of three biracial kids - brothers Manny, Joel, and Jonah - who may as well be a single alien organism: Siamese triplets fused at the hip, or a kind of rare 12-legged octopus. [...]

di Peter Debruge, articolo completo (5560 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Variety 17 agosto 2018