All of Us Strangers is a heart-wrenching drama that demonstrates how much we miss people who are gone. It also reveals how difficult it is to overcome loneliness. A brilliant and flawless Andrew Scott delivers the performance of his career in this enthralling ghost story. The Sherlock and Fleabag actor carries All of Us Strangers through its time-tripping and memory-lane strolls.
Review by Siddhant Adlakha
Despite the supernatural elements and dreamlike sequences that make up the film, All of Us Strangers is a very human drama that explores the effects of grief and the power of second chances. The movie is a testament to the ability of love to heal.
The movie follows Adam who is emotionally and physically alone in his London tower block apartment. He rebuffs the doorstep advances of his sixth-floor neighbor, Harry, but eventually opens himself up to him. Their relationship is both romantic and sexual and they begin to discuss their family backgrounds and their parents’ ghosts who visit them both in their dreams.
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All of Us Strangers is a delicate and touching movie, but it does stray into saccharine territory at times. The performances of Scott and Paul Mescal are both excellent, however. Scott, who stars as Sherlock in the TV series and Fleabag on the big screen, is a powerhouse, but even so, his character could have been a bit more feisty in his responses to these apparitions. Nevertheless, this is a film worth seeing.
Starring Andrew Scott
Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers is a dreamy ghost story that explores love, loss and memory through the lens of quiet fantasy. It stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a lonely gay screenwriter who reconnects with his late parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) in suburban Dorking – they appear exactly the same age they were when they died. Adam also finds connection with his alluring building mate Harry (Paul Mescal).
In this achingly vulnerable role, Scott delivers a career-best performance as the emotionally crippled Adam at a crossroads. Adam rebuffs the doorstep advances of his building mate Harry, but the two start to develop a tentative relationship.
This film is a heartbreaking tale of the pain of loss and the power of love. It is one of the most poignant LGBT movies to hit theaters in recent years. It is a must-see. And it is a perfect showcase for the talent of Scott and Mescal. They are both destined for big things in Hollywood. A must-see for all movie lovers! Watch it now on Hulu, Amazon Prime or other streaming services.
Director Andrew Haigh
An incomparable film, steeped in romance and carrying a ghostly feeling that makes it feel like a movie from another time, All of Us Strangers is a profoundly melancholy exercise on the attempt to bridge past and present through the power of second chances. It’s also a deeply touching love story and a meditation on grief, loss, and the way childhood trauma resurfaces in middle age.
Fleabag and Sherlock star Andrew Scott delivers a powerful performance in the lead role. He carries the film with a thunderous ache that reaches for the stars and aches all the way there. He’s the fulcrum that keeps All of Us Strangers’s occasional flights of paranormal fancy grounded in a tragic reality.
Writer-director Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years, Lean on Pete) and the rest of his talented cast have created a remarkable film. The film is also a testament to the strength of memory and the insatiable human need for love and connection.
Adapted from the Japanese novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada
It’s easy to assume that a film with a plot that blurs reality and fantasy must be an exercise in horror or a paranoiac thriller, but Haigh and Yamada take a more subdued approach. This is a story about love, heartbreak, and the complexities of grief.
The film’s protagonist is a middle-aged TV screenwriter named Adam, played by Andrew Scott in a deeply vulnerable performance. He’s a lonely man who has chosen (or perhaps infinitesimally defaulted) to lead a quiet, isolated existence in a near-empty London apartment building. His torpor is interrupted when he meets a man and woman who look exactly like his dead parents.
At first, he rebuffs the doorstep advances of his doppelgangers, but eventually they persuade him to spend more time with them. It’s a profoundly moving and affecting drama about the nature of love, loss, and the importance of family. It also explores the connection between familial and romantic love, and how a sense of isolation can affect our lives. Adapted from the 1987 Japanese novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada, All of Us Strangers is a delicate and perceptive film that will touch your heart.
Based on a short story
A ghost story that also delves into the nature of love and loss, All of Us Strangers proves director Andrew Haigh is a master at creating towering moments out of the smallest beginnings. With a cast of dazzling actors, including the always-remarkable Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers is a tensely tender drama about the power and fragility of memory.
The film begins with a screenwriter named Adam living alone in a London high-rise apartment building that’s curiously empty. He alternates between staring at a blank page and lounging on his sofa watching TV for hours on end.
Until one day a new neighbor named Harry knocks on his door. They become fast friends and soon begin a romantic relationship. Soon, Harry inspires Adam to visit the Sanderstead home he grew up in and see the parental apparitions that have haunted him since childhood.
Haigh paints this beautiful, dreamlike picture with bracing realism and a touch of whimsy. While his script sometimes veers toward the supernatural, All of Us Strangers is primarily about the enduring trauma of grief and isolation and the all-too-human fear of loneliness.