All of Us Strangers

All of Us Strangers

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which 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.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 106 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
  • Stars: Carter John Grout, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Andrew Scott, Jamie Bell, Ami Tredrea
  • Director: Andrew Haigh
 Comments
  • MattyLuke-81663 - 29 June 2024
    All of Us Strangers - Review
    "Don't let this get tangled up again."

    All of Us Strangers is a devastating but beautiful film about love, loss, depression, and loneliness.

    Andrew Scott delivers a raw and emotionally devastating performance, where his character is scared by tragedy at an early age and the absence of parents growing up. The supporting cast of Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell were terrific in their parts, and the moments we see with them are the most heartbreaking.

    Director Andrew Haigh gives the movie a dream-like quality, where we slip in and out of the present and revisit our past, where the ghosts of familiar faces haunt them. A lot of the time, you do not know what is present or not because you are in the perspective of a grief-stricken man stuck in the past and hurting from it. But he also allows the scenes to breathe and for us to connect with the characters.

    The real pain in dealing with the grief of a loved one is often the things that we did not get to say or the things we wish we did. It is the things that are left unfinished, open, and raw. Tragedy can happen when we least expect it and can rob us of the opportunity to say our goodbyes. This film deals with that in such a broken but brilliant way.

    Overall rating: All of Us Strangers is a brilliant movie about the echoes of grief. While it can be a heavy watch, besides the dark cloud that hovers over the film, it does have its funny and sweet moments and some mesmerizing visuals.

    It is a love story that you won't forget.
  • Stay_away_from_the_Metropol - 30 May 2024
    A profoundly powerful masterpiece
    When people say things about movies like "this isn't a movie, it's a feeling" - this is the epitome of the kind of movie they are talking about.

    If I had seen this last year, it absolutely would have been on my Top 10 of 2023, if not my Top 5.

    Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal have ASTRONOMICAL chemistry in this, and I mean that in a MULTITUDE of ways. This is my first impression of the very hyped Paul Mescal as an actor, and from his first minute of dialogue I was entirely sold. Drastically charming with a very unique demeanor and sense of humor, and, if he ISN'T GAY in REALITY, then this film shows that he is ONE TALENTED ACTOR. As a straight man, I have no fear or shame in saying that the sex scenes in this are HIGHLY STIMULATING - perhaps it's because I could feel that it was "working" on my girlfriend who was watching with me, but the passion between these two men did NOT feel like a work of fiction - I will just say that. It's wonderful to see Andrew Scott getting such a ball rolling - he's always been a very standout person to see on screen, but ever since that priest role in Fleabag he's really broken through, and this is without a doubt the most astonishing performance I've seen by him - the emotion he is able to resonate through expression in this film is on a very high level.

    The soundtrack is fantastic (great new wave songs).

    The film keeps you guessing. What is real and what isn't? After we finished squeezing each other and letting our tears drop all over each other throughout the entire ending credits, it left us with a lot to discuss, and every element, even if we weren't fully sure what they represented, felt deeply powerful and beautifully tragic.

    I had heard that All of Us Strangers was a really heavy film, and it absolutely is. While the ending was mostly beautiful and comforting to me, my girlfriend found it to be deeply sad, and overall, found the film to be "maybe the saddest movie she has ever seen". It feels immensely personal, and somehow strikingly "real" though the entire film functions very far outside of reality. It's a hard experience to put into words other than: IT IS A PROFOUND MASTERPIECE.