We Are The Flesh's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
Viewers expecting a garden-variety horror flick will likely recoil, but those seeking new voices in Mexican cinema may well hail Minter's effort. Repulsive as it is, this is a vision art houses would be wrong to ignore.
Los Angeles Times
The incest scenes are shown in pornographic detail, which ? when combined with the images of butchery, cannibalism and multiple varieties of dripping and spurting bodily fluids ? will violently repel many viewers.
Indiewire
Indeed, ?We Are the Flesh? is so instructive that it?s hard to find any wiggle room for even the most amenable viewers to think for themselves. As Minter begins to introduce new characters and further confuse any sense of a story, his film only becomes more obvious and narrow.
New York Times
Incest, menstrual-blood play, torture and cannibalism ensue. The Mexican national anthem is sung by the characters during a particularly fraught sequence, to let you know that the whole thing is a metaphor. And a classical piece by Bach accompanies a flesh-eating orgy to let you know that the director has seen ?A Clockwork Orange.?
Variety
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. Enclosed in the womb-like nest of a hellish, rotting apartment, Yollotl Alvarado?s camera becomes the scalpel laying bare the meat of the movie
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote