Your best friends? Strangers in rooms. Your homeland? A feeling you can't locate.
We Ourselves is an unconventional drama about isolation and belonging, about being alone with one’s own thoughts while being part of a shared experience, culture and nation. It takes us into the minds and hearts of a group of idealists and careerists as they take their separate paths in life. These people will tell you that they are the best of friends. They believe they are from the same country, yet in the privacy of a room, they are apart, alone and in a state of exile.
Acting
Aidan Gillen's eyes contain multitudes of unspoken regret.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like conversation you've overheard in your own head.
Direction
Mercier traps characters in frames that feel like rooms without doors.
Director
Paul Mercier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Ireland's post-recession identity crisis, the film interrogates whether 'Irishness' survived Celtic Tiger capitalism.
Mercier reportedly wrote the screenplay after noticing how often Irish people say 'we' when meaning 'I'—the title's grammatical weapon.
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