All Of Us Strangers, the latest film from director Andrew Haigh, is being touted as a contender for the best movie of the year. While it could have been a Christmas film, it’s release in late January could not be better timing for what is being called the saddest movie of the year. Adam, played by Andrew Scott, is coping with loneliness and depression after the death of his parents due to a car crash thirty years before. While decorating for the holidays with his parents, played by Jamie Bell and Claire Foy, he realizes they are exactly as they were the night before their death, giving him the chance to have the conversations he never had.
Growing up gay and robbed of his own coming out story, Adam has the conversations he might have had as a teenager. Finally dealing with everything he left buried back in the past, he sparks a relationship with Harry, played by Paul Mescal. Blending themes from It’s A Wonderful Life, Tom’s Midnight Garden, and Petite Maman, All Of Us Strangers is a ghost story that frightens you with its feeling. It disarms you with its tenderness – leaving you with something much more profound about the connections we make and break along the way.
While it is brutally upsetting at times, Haigh’s film ultimately leaves you with something much more profound to say about the connections we make and break along the way. It’s a beautiful, melancholic dream that one would wish to keep close. Andrew Scott’s portrayal of Adam is an honest, emotional, deeply personal performance that could only be cheapened by an armful of awards. Haigh’s direction has also received well-deserved praise, with critics saying that the film took them back and forth from “wounding and healing” to a “traumatic memory.”
All of Us Strangers stars Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, and Claire Foy. It was released in late January, and directed by Andrew Haigh. The film has received high praise from critics, who have called it an early contender for best picture of the year. One of the reasons for this acclaim comes from the disarming tenderness of the movie, which leaves audiences with something profound to say about life’s connections
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