We Are Living Things

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We Are Living Things

2022

1h 36m

Drama

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We Are Living Things follows two undocumented residents who after a chance meeting, discover that they are both in search of intelligent life in the universe. Solomon (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) lives in the back lot of a recycling plant in Brooklyn, obsessed with connecting to aliens whom he believes abducted his mother many years ago. Chuyao (Xingchen Lyu), who fled China, believes she was abducted as a child. The two decide to help each other find the proof they seek, all the while on the run from the law as fugitives. Along their journey, they give each other hope for the future.

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Carlos Aguilar

RogerEbert.com

08/12/2022

3/4

[We Are Living Things offers] a truly original angle on tropes associated with immigrant stories.

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Austin Considine

New York Times

08/11/2022

Tibaldi and his co-writer, Àlex Lora, do much with little, and one is likely to finish with more questions than resolutions — fitting for a film about various forms of alien life.

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Nuha Hassan

Nuha Hassan (Medium)

09/08/2023

If these troubled sequences were handled sensitively and the themes were explored properly, perhaps We Are Living Things could have left viewers with one message: everyone needs to be treated equally.

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Julian Roman

MovieWeb

08/12/2022

3.5/5

We Are Living Things follows a dark and eerie journey into the mysteries of human attachments. The film exquisitely fuses noir and science fiction elements to establish a dangerous yet beguiling mood.

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Chris Knight

National Post

08/12/2022

3/5

There’s more than a little of Close Encounters’ DNA in We Are Living Things, a low-key drama about two people searching for a truth they know is out there.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

08/11/2022

Well-shot and refreshingly understated, but lethargic, underwhelming and ultimately less than the sum of its parts.

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Steve C

@RT19610513 03/16/2024

Way more questions than answers

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We Are Living Things follows two undocumented residents who after a chance meeting, discover that they are both in search of intelligent life in the universe. Solomon (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) lives in the back lot of a recycling plant in Brooklyn, obsessed with connecting to aliens whom he believes abducted his mother many years ago. Chuyao (Xingchen Lyu), who fled China, believes she was abducted as a child. The two decide to help each other find the proof they seek, all the while on the run from the law as fugitives. Along their journey, they give each other hope for the future.

Director: Antonio Tibaldi
Producer: Fan He, Andrew K. Li, Antonio Tibaldi, Alex Lora
Screenwriter: Antonio Tibaldi, Alex Lora
Distributor: Juno Films
Production Co: Berta Film, EnMaze Pictures, No Permits Produktions, Radical Plans
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 15, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 36m