We Are the Flesh – original title: Tenemos la carne – is a 2016 Mexican-French fantasy horror drama written and directed by Emiliano Rocha Minter.
The film stars María Cid, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel, Noé Hernández and Noé Hernández.
Plot:
In a seemingly post-Apocalyptic world, two teen siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. There, an ageing grubby old man offers food to sister (Maria Evoli) and brother (Diego Gamaliel) if they are willing to transform his dewlling into a womb-like cave. He pressures them further to abandon any inhibitions, and indulge in acts of incest, bloodlust, murder, and cannibalism…
Reviews:
“We Are the Flesh is a balls-to-the-wall crash course in latter day enlightenment, heavily inspired by French guru and mentor Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade and the philosophy of libertinism, packing several other stabs at undermining the austere and traditional Christian logic of approaching life and its circumstances. Excessive, corporeal and transgressive is Minter´s debuting opus, a celebration of boundary crossings and defeating of mental obstacles, an effort the director himself manifests in a (vagina-)in-yer-face style.” Martin Kudlac, Screen Anarchy
“The pic’s primary joys — if that’s the word — are visual, as setting and mise-en-scene are permitted to outweigh the sparse narrative … A thick layer of dirty grease seems to smear every surface, captured in such loving detail that we can almost see the grimy fingerprints. We Are the Flesh is also perversely erotic: Sex scenes are shot with frank delight, Alvarado’s lens drinking in the lithe contortions of the extremely game performers, switching in one memorable scene to heat-map imagery as an intense coupling unfolds.” Catherine Bray, Variety
“We Are the Flesh straddles the line between narrative and explicit performance art, documenting the process of turning the warehouse into a labyrinth of womb-like chambers and presenting explicit sex acts that appear to be at least partially unsimulated. The performances are fearless and the filmmaking undeniably artful, but anyone who finds explicit sex presented without a clearly defined purpose problematic will probably want to give this a hard pass.” Jason Coffman, Daily Grindhouse
Filming locations:
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
