All of Us Strangers (2023)

	Directed by: Andrew Haigh	COUNTRY United Kingdom GENRE Drama/Fantasy NORWEGIAN TITLE All of Us Strangers RUNNING TIME 105 minutes
	Produced by: Graham Broadbent Peter Czernin Sarah Harvey
	Written by: Andrew Haigh

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Adam	Andrew Scott	½
Harry	Paul Mescal	½
Adam's father	Jamie Bell	½
Adam's mother	Claire Foy

Review

A pensive and remarkably insightful piece about a London-based writer (Andrew Scott) who revisits his past through mysterious encounters with his deceased parents, who died in a car accident when he was 12 years old. Concurrently, he embarks on a relationship with his neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal). Balancing fantastical elements with heartfelt interpersonal drama isn't the simplest task for a filmmaker, but it cannot be done much more elegantly than what English filmmaker Andrew Haigh does with All of Us Strangers. In getting us acquainted with Adam's late parents through his now grown-up self, Haigh combines the probing quality of literature with the immersive quality of film, and it's all done with an accomplished aesthetic and accompanied by an eclectic soundtrack of British pop music from the '80s and '90s. There are magnificent performances by the entire cast of four, including a visibly personal and remarkably emotive one by Andrew Scott. If you subscribe to the tag 'gay film', this certainly ranks among the best of its kind.