All of Us Strangers

All of Us Strangers

United Kingdom, 2023, 105min

Director: Andrew Haigh

Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John Grout, Jamie Bell.

Adam is a struggling screenwriter attempting to work on a story about his suburban childhood.

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry. This encounter punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.

As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents , appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

Is this a ghost story, or a dream, or something else?

Andrew Haigh has created a quietly expressive and affecting story, plunging us into the tactile and sensuous pleasures of an intoxicating world, one caught between memory and the present, between regret and possibility. 

To be sure, this is one of those releases that, if it doesn't touch you profoundly, you'd better check to see if you have ice water coursing through your veins. "All of Us Strangers" richly deserves whatever accolades it receives. It's one of the year's best, bar none.

All of Us Strangers examines profound grief and love through a fantastical lens that is always grounded on human emotion.

This beautifully understated and unique film transitions from the mundane to the otherworldly with feverish quietness, offering a poignant exploration of solitude, trauma, grief, love, and the vagaries of time. It’s a well-constructed and nuanced drama that drips with bold visual aplomb and a subtle mysticism akin to disorienting, dreamlike states.

Original Language: English

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