[Editor’s note: this story was originally published in January 2024. We updated and recirculated it in advance of the 96th Academy Awards on March 10.]
The Oscars are a cruel, selective beast. With only 10 movies recognized in the Best Picture race, and five entries in every other category, it’s an unfortunate reality that many high quality, deserving films each year will end up with nothing on nomination day.
The 2024 Oscar class is no different, with plenty of cries of snubbery coming out after their January 23 announcement. Most of the discussion has been taken up by the shocking blanks for Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig, who missed out on Best Actress and Best Director respectively for their work on “Barbie,” the indisputable film juggernaut of the year. Other major surprises included Charles Melton missing out for his breakout turn in “May December,” and Leonardo DiCaprio getting left out of the Best Actor race for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Other surprises proved of the more pleasant sort, with on-the-bubble contenders making it in like Robbie...
The Oscars are a cruel, selective beast. With only 10 movies recognized in the Best Picture race, and five entries in every other category, it’s an unfortunate reality that many high quality, deserving films each year will end up with nothing on nomination day.
The 2024 Oscar class is no different, with plenty of cries of snubbery coming out after their January 23 announcement. Most of the discussion has been taken up by the shocking blanks for Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig, who missed out on Best Actress and Best Director respectively for their work on “Barbie,” the indisputable film juggernaut of the year. Other major surprises included Charles Melton missing out for his breakout turn in “May December,” and Leonardo DiCaprio getting left out of the Best Actor race for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Other surprises proved of the more pleasant sort, with on-the-bubble contenders making it in like Robbie...
- 3/4/2024
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Irish actor Paul Mescal rose to fame by starring as Connell Waldron in BBC Three’s romantic psychological drama mini-series Normal People opposite Daisy Edgar Jones. The actor’s performance was highly lauded in the mini-series as he not only earned a BAFTA TV Award but also a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Mescal also starred in a supporting role in The Lost Daughter followed by his critically acclaimed performances in God’s Creatures and Aftersun. Paul Mescal’s portrayal of a troubled father in Aftersun alongside young actress Frankie Corio earned him his Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The movie was named one of the best movies in 2022 by the National Board of Review, which also contributed to Paul Mescal’s success. The actor has been one of the top contenders for the role of James Bond and he shared his thoughts on the same.
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Mescal also starred in a supporting role in The Lost Daughter followed by his critically acclaimed performances in God’s Creatures and Aftersun. Paul Mescal’s portrayal of a troubled father in Aftersun alongside young actress Frankie Corio earned him his Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The movie was named one of the best movies in 2022 by the National Board of Review, which also contributed to Paul Mescal’s success. The actor has been one of the top contenders for the role of James Bond and he shared his thoughts on the same.
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- 2/24/2024
- by Avneet Ahluwalia
- FandomWire
Warning: this piece contains spoilers for All Of Us Strangers.
If you're reading this through a haze of tears, you're not alone. Even mentioning All of Us Strangers is enough to make a person sob as if they’re watching Andrew Haigh's masterpiece again for the very first time. And that's rather fitting given the curious way this film plays with chronology. Whether it's the grief or queer trauma or a heady mix of the two that resonates with you most, All of Us Strangers is a story that will always be on your mind in some way, the kind that shifts how you perceive the world. But how you even perceive the film itself can also shift depending on different factors.
One thing that can be agreed on is that this loose yet touching adaptation of Strangers, a Japanese novel by Taichi Yamada, is essentially two love stories in one.
If you're reading this through a haze of tears, you're not alone. Even mentioning All of Us Strangers is enough to make a person sob as if they’re watching Andrew Haigh's masterpiece again for the very first time. And that's rather fitting given the curious way this film plays with chronology. Whether it's the grief or queer trauma or a heady mix of the two that resonates with you most, All of Us Strangers is a story that will always be on your mind in some way, the kind that shifts how you perceive the world. But how you even perceive the film itself can also shift depending on different factors.
One thing that can be agreed on is that this loose yet touching adaptation of Strangers, a Japanese novel by Taichi Yamada, is essentially two love stories in one.
- 2/5/2024
- by David Opie
- Empire - Movies
There’s something inherently a little unsettling about a tower block. And that’s particularly true of the glistening edifices of modern London, with enormous windows, uninspired furnishing, and even less personality than a geography teacher convention. In Andrew Haigh‘s new drama All of Us Strangers, one of these tower blocks becomes pure purgatory – a cavernous liminal space in which two lonely men are trapped, at least until they can find each other.
Haigh simply doesn’t make noisy films. With the likes of Weekend and 45 Years, he has proven adept at telling smart, human stories about relationships at very different stages. In some ways, his work lives in those liminal, uncertain spaces. All of Us Strangers, which combines Haigh’s trademark thoughtful humanity with lashings of ghost story, is no different and is as fascinating as it is desperately painful.
The story begins with Adam (Andrew Scott), who...
Haigh simply doesn’t make noisy films. With the likes of Weekend and 45 Years, he has proven adept at telling smart, human stories about relationships at very different stages. In some ways, his work lives in those liminal, uncertain spaces. All of Us Strangers, which combines Haigh’s trademark thoughtful humanity with lashings of ghost story, is no different and is as fascinating as it is desperately painful.
The story begins with Adam (Andrew Scott), who...
- 1/26/2024
- by Tom Beasley
- Talking Films
Though January is notorious as a movie “dumping ground” with several forgettable big studio releases (often a mediocre horror flick), it’s also when many of the “indie” studios give a wide release to some of their “award hopefuls”, after getting a quickie end-of-the-year Oscar-qualifying “run’ on both of the coasts. And that’s surely the case with this thought-provoking and conversation-starting motion picture. All Of US Strangers (the title is appropriately vague) takes us into a dreamy “netherworld’ for 105 minutes, before sending us back into the jolting harsh reality. The focus of the film is an aspiring writer named Adam (Andrew Scott) who is nearly numb from the routine of “cocooning” in his comfy condo (or it may be an apartment) in a brand-new high-rise on the outskirts of London. Ah, but he’s been noticed by a neighbor, a friendly fellow named Harry (Paul Mescal) who knocks on Adam’s door,...
- 1/19/2024
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
by Cláudio Alves
Something must be done about that Irish menace known as Paul Mescal. He's out there ruining perfectly great songs, attaching such emotional devastation to them one can't help but start tearing up when listening to them. It's akin to a cinema-induced Pavlovian response, and it's making me feel like an insane crybaby. Last year, it was "Under Pressure," forever bound to Aftersun. This year, it's "The Power of Love" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and the ending to All of Us Strangers. Twisting the horror out of Taichi Yamada's ghost story, Andrew Haigh re-imagined the book's conclusion as a melancholic gut punch, romance played for earnestness rather than betrayal.
It's probably the picture's most divisive element, but it works partly because of Mescal and how fleshed out his depressed stranger grows into being, narrative circumstances notwithstanding. I won't go further because everyone deserves to discover those surprises by themselves.
Something must be done about that Irish menace known as Paul Mescal. He's out there ruining perfectly great songs, attaching such emotional devastation to them one can't help but start tearing up when listening to them. It's akin to a cinema-induced Pavlovian response, and it's making me feel like an insane crybaby. Last year, it was "Under Pressure," forever bound to Aftersun. This year, it's "The Power of Love" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and the ending to All of Us Strangers. Twisting the horror out of Taichi Yamada's ghost story, Andrew Haigh re-imagined the book's conclusion as a melancholic gut punch, romance played for earnestness rather than betrayal.
It's probably the picture's most divisive element, but it works partly because of Mescal and how fleshed out his depressed stranger grows into being, narrative circumstances notwithstanding. I won't go further because everyone deserves to discover those surprises by themselves.
- 12/29/2023
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
If there’s one takeaway from the LGBTQ narrative films that came into the world and across our screens this year, it’s the sheer variety of the stories there are to tell.
From real-world historical biopics and inspirational sports dramas, to tender love stories and raunchy comedies, there really was something for everyone this year. Captivating characters, fearless performances and narrative tapestries that defy convention and troublesome tropes all reigned supreme. As such, here are some of the best we got.
All of Us Strangers “All of Us Strangers” (Credit: Searchlight Pictures)
A new movie from the director of “Weekend” starring the Hot Priest from “Fleabag” and everyone’s favorite internet boyfriend should be enough to catch the interest of anyone listening — and “All of Us Strangers” lives up to that potential and then some. This equal parts sexy and emotionally devastating romance stars Andrew Scott as an isolated writer who,...
From real-world historical biopics and inspirational sports dramas, to tender love stories and raunchy comedies, there really was something for everyone this year. Captivating characters, fearless performances and narrative tapestries that defy convention and troublesome tropes all reigned supreme. As such, here are some of the best we got.
All of Us Strangers “All of Us Strangers” (Credit: Searchlight Pictures)
A new movie from the director of “Weekend” starring the Hot Priest from “Fleabag” and everyone’s favorite internet boyfriend should be enough to catch the interest of anyone listening — and “All of Us Strangers” lives up to that potential and then some. This equal parts sexy and emotionally devastating romance stars Andrew Scott as an isolated writer who,...
- 12/29/2023
- by Benjamin Lindsay
- The Wrap
Actress Claire Foy is ready and braced for a lot of personal reactions to her latest film All of Us Strangers. Adapted from Taichi Yamada’s novel Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh’s emotional reimagining finds gay screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) working on a script inspired by a devastating personal tragedy: in the early ’80s, both his parents died in a car crash when he was just 12. Seeking inspiration, Adam travels back to his childhood neighborhood where he encounters his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) — not only still living in his former home but looking exactly the same as the last time he saw them.
Deadline: How did you first hear about All of Us Strangers?
Claire Foy: It was actually three or four months before we started shooting. One of my agents, Billy Lazarus, had a very, very emotional response to it, and I knew that it was something quite special.
Deadline: How did you first hear about All of Us Strangers?
Claire Foy: It was actually three or four months before we started shooting. One of my agents, Billy Lazarus, had a very, very emotional response to it, and I knew that it was something quite special.
- 12/24/2023
- by Stevie Wong
- Deadline Film + TV
Unlike the scores of paranormal investigators on reality TV, Andrew Haigh has made a career as a successful cinematic ghosthunter, chasing after entities whose presence is unquestionably felt.
The British filmmaker’s apparitions take the forms of suppressed pain, unresolved trauma, unspoken resentment, and earth-shattering secrets in movies often, though not exclusively, focused on romantic (gay) relationships. In his latest drama, All of Us Strangers, loosely adapted from Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers, those specters from his main character’s past are more literal than ever before.
“I’ve always...
The British filmmaker’s apparitions take the forms of suppressed pain, unresolved trauma, unspoken resentment, and earth-shattering secrets in movies often, though not exclusively, focused on romantic (gay) relationships. In his latest drama, All of Us Strangers, loosely adapted from Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers, those specters from his main character’s past are more literal than ever before.
“I’ve always...
- 12/23/2023
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Rollingstone.com
“Weekend” and “Looking” filmmaker Andrew Haigh is back with another soulful examination of love, family and queerness, “All of Us Strangers.” Emmy-nominated “Fleabag” star Andrew Scott and Oscar-nominated “Normal People” and “Aftersun” breakout Paul Mescal star as two men in London, who bond after a chance encounter. Meanwhile, Scott’s Adam encounters his parents in his childhood home — exactly the same as they were the day they died thirty years ago. From there, a surprising and heartbreaking ghost story ensues.
“All of Us Strangers” is a beautiful, haunting film tangled up in the root of identity, where Haigh prods at the intersection of family, culture, sex and love; and the intimacy and aloneness within each. It’s a super personal piece for the filmmaker, it’s poised to be a player in the 2024 awards conversation and it’s finally heading to theaters.
If you’re wondering when you can watch...
“All of Us Strangers” is a beautiful, haunting film tangled up in the root of identity, where Haigh prods at the intersection of family, culture, sex and love; and the intimacy and aloneness within each. It’s a super personal piece for the filmmaker, it’s poised to be a player in the 2024 awards conversation and it’s finally heading to theaters.
If you’re wondering when you can watch...
- 12/22/2023
- by Haleigh Foutch
- The Wrap
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Andrew Haigh’s romantic fantasy All of Us Strangers. Haigh directs and wrote the film that’s loosely inspired by Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers.
One night in his empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) that punctures the rhythms of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died 30 years before.
The film premiered to acclaim at Telluride and has gone on to play myriad festivals including New York, London and AFI.
When Haigh’s longtime editor Jonathan Alberts first read the script, he saw that the writer-director was entering into new territory.
One night in his empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) that punctures the rhythms of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died 30 years before.
The film premiered to acclaim at Telluride and has gone on to play myriad festivals including New York, London and AFI.
When Haigh’s longtime editor Jonathan Alberts first read the script, he saw that the writer-director was entering into new territory.
- 12/22/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
In English filmmaker Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, grief is overwhelming. Emotions run deep, relationships ebb within the span of a scene, and loneliness becomes all-consuming. Haigh’s ephemeral drama follows Adam (a darting Andrew Scott) as he begins a relationship with Harry (Paul Mescal in another role as a broken young man), while he grapples with the death of his parents many years ago. He visits these parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), remembering them as they once were, sleeping in his childhood home, telling them about his childhood, his sexuality, and his immense sadness.
Haigh’s films often contain this amount of emotional weight, this blanket of innate feeling. He oscillates with the novels he chooses to adapt, most recently taking on grim brutality in The North Water––far from the brighter touch of his newest film, even if both stories retain high levels of intensity.
Haigh’s films often contain this amount of emotional weight, this blanket of innate feeling. He oscillates with the novels he chooses to adapt, most recently taking on grim brutality in The North Water––far from the brighter touch of his newest film, even if both stories retain high levels of intensity.
- 12/21/2023
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
Tucked into the official logline of Andrew Haigh’s heartbreaking “All of Us Strangers” are plenty of intriguing ideas. Mainly, there’s the revelation that Harry’s (played by Andrew Scott) parents are long dead by the time the film opens, and begin appearing to him three decades after they passed away. So stars Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, known simply as “Mum” and “Dad” in the film, are, what? Ghosts? Memories made corporeal? Dreams?
For Foy, those big questions weren’t the most thrilling part of the film. Instead, it was the chance to dive so deeply into a character that, even more than a year since the end of production — the film shot in the summer of 2022 in the UK — she can still conjure up intensely personal alternate realities for a woman literally bound in time.
I met Foy in the restaurant of a Manhattan hotel the afternoon...
For Foy, those big questions weren’t the most thrilling part of the film. Instead, it was the chance to dive so deeply into a character that, even more than a year since the end of production — the film shot in the summer of 2022 in the UK — she can still conjure up intensely personal alternate realities for a woman literally bound in time.
I met Foy in the restaurant of a Manhattan hotel the afternoon...
- 12/20/2023
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in All Of Us StrangersPhoto: Searchlight Pictures
Andrew Haigh is a master storyteller of love stories, both about budding connections (Weekend) and lifetime marriages falling apart (45 Years). He’s also one of the best contemporary chroniclers of gay lives. In All Of Us Strangers, he...
Andrew Haigh is a master storyteller of love stories, both about budding connections (Weekend) and lifetime marriages falling apart (45 Years). He’s also one of the best contemporary chroniclers of gay lives. In All Of Us Strangers, he...
- 12/20/2023
- by Murtada Elfadl
- avclub.com
As speculation continues over who will be the next James Bond, Andrew Scott, who played the villainous C in Sam Mendes’ “Spectre,” is weighing on his “All of Us Strangers” co-star Paul Mescal stepping into the shoes of 007.
“He’d probably be a great James Bond,” Scott told me Saturday night at Los Angeles special screening of “All of Us Strangers” at Vidiots in Eagle Rock.
But then he added with a sly smile, “I want to see him in ‘Gladiator’ first.”
Mescal, who couldn’t attend the Saturday screening because he is currently filming the “Gladiator” sequel in Malta, has been a fan favorite to lead the James Bond franchise after the departure of Daniel Craig.
Scott says Mescal has sent him photos from the “Gladiator” set. “It’s gonna be incredible,” Scott said. “It’s so exciting. I’ve seen some images that are going to delight the world over.
“He’d probably be a great James Bond,” Scott told me Saturday night at Los Angeles special screening of “All of Us Strangers” at Vidiots in Eagle Rock.
But then he added with a sly smile, “I want to see him in ‘Gladiator’ first.”
Mescal, who couldn’t attend the Saturday screening because he is currently filming the “Gladiator” sequel in Malta, has been a fan favorite to lead the James Bond franchise after the departure of Daniel Craig.
Scott says Mescal has sent him photos from the “Gladiator” set. “It’s gonna be incredible,” Scott said. “It’s so exciting. I’ve seen some images that are going to delight the world over.
- 12/10/2023
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
What part of writing do writers actually enjoy? The answers from the six panelists on the 2023 THR Writer Roundtable — Fair Play’s Chloe Domont, All of Us Strangers’ Andrew Haigh, American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson, Poor Things’ Tony McNamara, Killers of the Flower Moon’s Eric Roth and Past Lives’ Celine Song — run the gamut from “everything” to “none of it.”
The answer to that question is not the only thing that differentiates the participants. Three were born in America, while one hails from South Korea (Song), another from Australia (McNamara) and still another from England (Haigh). One has been writing screenplays for more than a half-century (Roth), while three had never written a script that was turned into a film (Domont, Jefferson and Song). Two of their 2023 films were original (Domont and Song), while four were adapted from books (Haigh, Jefferson, McNamara and Roth). And two handed their scripts...
The answer to that question is not the only thing that differentiates the participants. Three were born in America, while one hails from South Korea (Song), another from Australia (McNamara) and still another from England (Haigh). One has been writing screenplays for more than a half-century (Roth), while three had never written a script that was turned into a film (Domont, Jefferson and Song). Two of their 2023 films were original (Domont and Song), while four were adapted from books (Haigh, Jefferson, McNamara and Roth). And two handed their scripts...
- 12/8/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Searchlight UK has launched a new trailer for ‘All of Us Strangers,’ the feature based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada.
One Night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), 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 (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
Directed by Andrew Haigh, the cast includes Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy.
Also in trailers – “There’s a war going on…” Full trailer drops for ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
The movie hits UK cinemas on January 26th, 2024.
The...
One Night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), 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 (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
Directed by Andrew Haigh, the cast includes Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy.
Also in trailers – “There’s a war going on…” Full trailer drops for ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
The movie hits UK cinemas on January 26th, 2024.
The...
- 12/6/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Paul Mescal (‘All of Us Strangers’) on ‘trying to get at something that feels authentic, true, sexy’
“He gives off a kind of air of mystery or forwardness that is potentially unsettling a bit for Adam, but as the film unravels and as you get to know Harry a bit more, there’s something kind of surprising in his kindness and tenderness,” explains actor Paul Mescal about the “duality” that drew him to the role of Harry in “All of Us Strangers.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Loosely adapted from the novel “Strangers” by Taichi Yamada, “All of Us Strangers” stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a screenwriter who nervously begins a relationship with his neighbor Harry while still reckoning with the loss of his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy), who seem to have returned 30 years after they died in a car accident when Adam was a child. “There’s kind of two concurrent love stories happening at the same time,” Mescal observes, “one of familial...
Loosely adapted from the novel “Strangers” by Taichi Yamada, “All of Us Strangers” stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a screenwriter who nervously begins a relationship with his neighbor Harry while still reckoning with the loss of his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy), who seem to have returned 30 years after they died in a car accident when Adam was a child. “There’s kind of two concurrent love stories happening at the same time,” Mescal observes, “one of familial...
- 11/27/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Fantasy is a genre that is often hard done by the awards groups, particularly the academy. Occasionally, the odd masterpiece such as Peter Jackson‘s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which won 17 Oscars, will break their barrier but, in general, the genre doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Even “Harry Potter” failed to earn an Oscar win and was never nominated in any above-the-line category.
However, Andrew Haigh‘s “All of Us Strangers” is poised to be the next fantastical film that makes the academy’s voters sit up and take notice. Part romance, part ghost story, the film is loosely based on Taichi Yamada‘s 1987 novel “Strangers.” The story follows Andrew Scott‘s Adam as a writer struggling with his latest project who forms a relationship with Paul Mescal‘s Harry. As their relationship progresses, Adam finds himself drawn to his past and visits his hometown only...
However, Andrew Haigh‘s “All of Us Strangers” is poised to be the next fantastical film that makes the academy’s voters sit up and take notice. Part romance, part ghost story, the film is loosely based on Taichi Yamada‘s 1987 novel “Strangers.” The story follows Andrew Scott‘s Adam as a writer struggling with his latest project who forms a relationship with Paul Mescal‘s Harry. As their relationship progresses, Adam finds himself drawn to his past and visits his hometown only...
- 11/24/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
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Ben Affleck directs this corporate tale that goes behind the scenes of Nike’s partnership with Michael Jordan, in which the shoe company placed a massive bet on the then-rookie basketball player to create the now-ubiquitous Air Jordan shoe line. Matt Damon plays Sonny Vaccaro, the Nike exec who attempts to woo the up-and-coming athlete into signing a major deal, while Viola Davis delivers a meaty supporting performance as Jordan’s mother, Deloris Jordan.
All of Us Strangers
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Andrew Haigh’s metaphysical drama, adapted from Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers, stars Andrew Scott as a London screenwriter who begins a relationship with a mysterious neighbor played by Paul Mescal. Struggling to write a film inspired by his deceased parents, he is drawn back to his childhood home — only to discover his mother and father (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) living as if they had not died in a car accident 30 years earlier.
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Ben Affleck directs this corporate tale that goes behind the scenes of Nike’s partnership with Michael Jordan, in which the shoe company placed a massive bet on the then-rookie basketball player to create the now-ubiquitous Air Jordan shoe line. Matt Damon plays Sonny Vaccaro, the Nike exec who attempts to woo the up-and-coming athlete into signing a major deal, while Viola Davis delivers a meaty supporting performance as Jordan’s mother, Deloris Jordan.
All of Us Strangers
Searchlight
Andrew Haigh’s metaphysical drama, adapted from Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers, stars Andrew Scott as a London screenwriter who begins a relationship with a mysterious neighbor played by Paul Mescal. Struggling to write a film inspired by his deceased parents, he is drawn back to his childhood home — only to discover his mother and father (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) living as if they had not died in a car accident 30 years earlier.
- 11/13/2023
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Andrew Scott may have played the villain in Sherlock and Spectre well, but it’s not something he particularly wants to continue doing.
The actor, whose upcoming film All of Us Strangers sees him star opposite Paul Mescal, portrayed the James Bond villain C in the 2015 Daniel Craig film, but it’s not a role he’d likely take on again.
“If I’m honest, it’s not a territory that I feel like I would want to go over again,” Scott told British GQ. “Now I know who I am a little bit more, I feel like the work that I’m just interested in doing is more in the gray areas. I suppose it’s just that I didn’t think … I just maybe wasn’t that good in it.”
All of Us Strangers is already garnering Oscar buzz for the Fleabag actor and writer-director Andrew Haigh. Loosely...
The actor, whose upcoming film All of Us Strangers sees him star opposite Paul Mescal, portrayed the James Bond villain C in the 2015 Daniel Craig film, but it’s not a role he’d likely take on again.
“If I’m honest, it’s not a territory that I feel like I would want to go over again,” Scott told British GQ. “Now I know who I am a little bit more, I feel like the work that I’m just interested in doing is more in the gray areas. I suppose it’s just that I didn’t think … I just maybe wasn’t that good in it.”
All of Us Strangers is already garnering Oscar buzz for the Fleabag actor and writer-director Andrew Haigh. Loosely...
- 11/12/2023
- by Christy Piña
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Killers of the Flower Moon, All of Us Strangers and Black Flies will be part of the main competition at this year’s EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival.
Martin Scorsese’s 1920s-set Killers, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, tracks suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world after oil was discovered underneath their land. Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, who will introduce the film at the Polish festival, previously won Camerimage’s main competition Golden Frog for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Amores Perros and Silver Frog for Oliver Stone’s Alexander.
Starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, shot by Dp Jamie Ramsey, who will also introduce the film, is inspired by Taichi Yamada’s novel Strangers. A year ago, Ramsay was awarded Camerimage’s Bronze Frog for his work on Oliver Hermanus’ Living.
Martin Scorsese’s 1920s-set Killers, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, tracks suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world after oil was discovered underneath their land. Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, who will introduce the film at the Polish festival, previously won Camerimage’s main competition Golden Frog for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Amores Perros and Silver Frog for Oliver Stone’s Alexander.
Starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, shot by Dp Jamie Ramsey, who will also introduce the film, is inspired by Taichi Yamada’s novel Strangers. A year ago, Ramsay was awarded Camerimage’s Bronze Frog for his work on Oliver Hermanus’ Living.
- 10/17/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
EnergaCamerimage, the cinematography-focused film festival set for Torun, Poland, for Nov. 11-18, has announced that high-profile award contenders “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Black Flies” and “All of Us Strangers” will be featured in its main competition.
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” the latest pic from director Martin Scorsese, takes audiences on a journey through 1920s Oklahoma to tell a heartbreaking tale of love, greed and betrayal. Based on a true story and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, it centers on the suspicious murders of members of native American tribe Osage Nation, who became wealthy overnight after oil was discovered beneath their land.
This is the eighth Camerimage main competition nomination for Scorsese’s cinematographer, Rodrigo Prieto. He previously won the fest’s Golden Frog for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Amores Perros” (2000) and Silver Frog for Oliver Stone’s “Alexander” (2004).
“Black Flies,” a suspenseful story directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire,...
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” the latest pic from director Martin Scorsese, takes audiences on a journey through 1920s Oklahoma to tell a heartbreaking tale of love, greed and betrayal. Based on a true story and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, it centers on the suspicious murders of members of native American tribe Osage Nation, who became wealthy overnight after oil was discovered beneath their land.
This is the eighth Camerimage main competition nomination for Scorsese’s cinematographer, Rodrigo Prieto. He previously won the fest’s Golden Frog for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Amores Perros” (2000) and Silver Frog for Oliver Stone’s “Alexander” (2004).
“Black Flies,” a suspenseful story directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
The film “All of Us Strangers” is “quite different” from Taichi Yamada‘s novel “Strangers” that it’s adapted from, “but the central conceit is the same about the main character revisiting his parents and his past, and that just really struck me as a way to deal with parental love, to deal with pain, to deal with trauma of all sorts and all kinds, and then it was about trying to make that more personal to me,” explained filmmaker Andrew Haigh, who discussed his new drama at the New York Film Festival. Watch the complete Q&a below.
See‘All of Us Strangers’ could be Andrew Haigh’s Oscar breakthrough
The film tells the story of a screenwriter (Andrew Scott) who revisits his childhood home and reunites with his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy) who died 30 years earlier in a car accident. “It was a long process of...
See‘All of Us Strangers’ could be Andrew Haigh’s Oscar breakthrough
The film tells the story of a screenwriter (Andrew Scott) who revisits his childhood home and reunites with his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy) who died 30 years earlier in a car accident. “It was a long process of...
- 10/5/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Andrew Haigh says that when it came to casting for All of Us Strangers, his romantic fantasy inspired by Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers, it was important that his lead — played in the film by actor Andrew Scott — be gay.
The writer-director opened up about his approach to casting and talked about shooting the movie in his childhood home and capturing its intimacy scenes alongside editor Jonathan Alberts during a post-screening discussion at the New York Film Festival on Sunday. The film follows a gay man in London who, after having a chance encounter with his neighbor, develops a relationship with the man at the same time he begins convening with the ghosts of his dead parents during brief visits to his childhood home.
During the Q&a at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Haigh explained how he thought about casting for Adam, the quiet gay screenwriter at the center of his ghostly drama.
The writer-director opened up about his approach to casting and talked about shooting the movie in his childhood home and capturing its intimacy scenes alongside editor Jonathan Alberts during a post-screening discussion at the New York Film Festival on Sunday. The film follows a gay man in London who, after having a chance encounter with his neighbor, develops a relationship with the man at the same time he begins convening with the ghosts of his dead parents during brief visits to his childhood home.
During the Q&a at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Haigh explained how he thought about casting for Adam, the quiet gay screenwriter at the center of his ghostly drama.
- 10/2/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the climactic moment of 45 Years, Andrew Haigh’s portrait of an elderly couple whose marriage cracks the week of a milestone anniversary, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) stares through a white bed sheet and into the past. Ever since her husband received news that his ex-girlfriend’s frozen body was discovered in the Swiss Alps from an accident decades ago, he’s been acting strangely. Itching to discover more, she sneaks up to their attic, finds his old projector, and illuminates a worst-case scenario. In an instant, her husband’s photos melt time. Her face, aglow in shock, appears to have just witnessed a ghost.
Indeed, Kate’s obsession with the past and its lack of closure has a haunting effect. She has found a punishing secret she cannot share, cannot escape, isolating and distorting the world around her. It’s a dizzying symptom that Haigh explores more intently in All of Us Strangers,...
Indeed, Kate’s obsession with the past and its lack of closure has a haunting effect. She has found a punishing secret she cannot share, cannot escape, isolating and distorting the world around her. It’s a dizzying symptom that Haigh explores more intently in All of Us Strangers,...
- 10/2/2023
- by Jake Kring-Schreifels
- The Film Stage
With the early fall festivals Venice, Telluride, and Toronto in the rear view, we have now screened (most) of the key players in the upcoming Oscar race. We will catch up with some key films at the New York Film Festival, though, which is selling tickets fast to such buzzy titles as the September 29 opener, Todd Haynes’ Cannes premiere “May December” (Netflix), starring Best Actress Oscar-winners Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, which could use a fresh boost; Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein marital drama “Maestro” (Netflix), costarring Cooper and Carey Mulligan; Garth Davis’ dystopian “Foe” (Amazon), starring Irish actors Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan with American accents (sort of); and the October 15 closer, Michael Mann’s Venice biopic “Ferrari” (Neon), starring Oscar nominee Adam Driver and winner Penelope Cruz (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”).
But until then, here’s how the fall festival Oscar contenders played out, ahead of NYFF and such...
But until then, here’s how the fall festival Oscar contenders played out, ahead of NYFF and such...
- 9/28/2023
- by Anne Thompson and Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
The full lineup has been unveiled for the festival’s 36th edition.
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) today revealed the lineup for its 36th edition, including 20 world premieres across its two competition strands.
The festival, set to run October 23 to November 1, will feature 15 titles in its main Competition section led by Japan and China, which each have three films in the selection.
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From China are crime drama A Long Shot from debut feature director Gao Peng; Snow Leopard by late Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden, which premiered at Venice; and Dwelling By The West Lake by Gu Xiaogang,...
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) today revealed the lineup for its 36th edition, including 20 world premieres across its two competition strands.
The festival, set to run October 23 to November 1, will feature 15 titles in its main Competition section led by Japan and China, which each have three films in the selection.
Scroll down for full list
From China are crime drama A Long Shot from debut feature director Gao Peng; Snow Leopard by late Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden, which premiered at Venice; and Dwelling By The West Lake by Gu Xiaogang,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Searchlight Pictures’ theatrical trailer for All of Us Strangers teases the fantasy/drama without completely spoiling the storyline. Following the film’s successful festival run – it currently sits at 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – All of Us Strangers is set to open in theaters on December 22, 2023.
Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Andrew Scott (Fleabag), Jamie Bell (Shining Girls), and Claire Foy (The Crown) star in the drama based on the novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Andrew Haigh adapted Yamada’s novel and directs, with Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Sarah Harvey producing. Diarmuid Mckeown, Ben Knight, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, and Farhana Bhula serve as executive producers.
Searchlight Pictures offer this synopsis:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories...
Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Andrew Scott (Fleabag), Jamie Bell (Shining Girls), and Claire Foy (The Crown) star in the drama based on the novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Andrew Haigh adapted Yamada’s novel and directs, with Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Sarah Harvey producing. Diarmuid Mckeown, Ben Knight, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, and Farhana Bhula serve as executive producers.
Searchlight Pictures offer this synopsis:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories...
- 9/21/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
All of Us Strangers, the new drama from Fox Searchlight Pictures, has just released its trailer and shows that even if it’s incredibly painful or filled with sorrow, you can go home again.
The official synopsis from Fox Searchlight Pictures reads,
“One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), 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 (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.”
The cast includes Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Sarah Harvey are serving as the producers on the film.
The official synopsis from Fox Searchlight Pictures reads,
“One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), 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 (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.”
The cast includes Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Sarah Harvey are serving as the producers on the film.
- 9/21/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Two of Ireland's national treasures, Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, are gearing up for their upcoming film "All of Us Strangers." The indie film, directed by queer British filmmaker Andrew Haigh, will see the pair of esteemed actors getting close after a chance encounter changes everything. If Haigh's previous projects, including "Weekend" and "Lean on Pete," are anything to go by, it's likely to be another LGBTQ+ film that needs to be on your watch list.
Oscar nominee Mescal and Emmy nominee Scott are the dynamic duo in the lead roles, and they're joined by Claire Foy ("The Crown") and Jamie Bell ("Rocketman"). Foy and Bell play Scott's parents, who died when he was just 12. As he tries to write about them - and falls in love with Mescal's character - his parents visit him as ghostly presences. The startling and emotional trailer for the film was released Sept. 21, and...
Oscar nominee Mescal and Emmy nominee Scott are the dynamic duo in the lead roles, and they're joined by Claire Foy ("The Crown") and Jamie Bell ("Rocketman"). Foy and Bell play Scott's parents, who died when he was just 12. As he tries to write about them - and falls in love with Mescal's character - his parents visit him as ghostly presences. The startling and emotional trailer for the film was released Sept. 21, and...
- 9/21/2023
- by Joely Chilcott
- Popsugar.com
A movie about Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal falling in love pretty much sells itself. Throw in writer/director Andrew Haigh and a magical realist story about Scott reuniting with the ghosts (?) of his dead parents, and I can already feel my heart swelling with emotion after watching the "All of Us Strangers" trailer. It's Thursday morning, dammit, I'm not ready for actual feelings at this time of day!
Loosely based on Taichi Yamada's 1987 novel "Strangers," the film centers on Adam (Scott), a middle-aged man who's trying to write about his late parents when he suddenly finds himself falling in love with his enigmatic younger neighbor Harry (Mescal). But as unexpected as their romance is, it's got nothing on what happens to Adam when he journeys back to his hometown, only to find his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) living there, just the way he remembers them when...
Loosely based on Taichi Yamada's 1987 novel "Strangers," the film centers on Adam (Scott), a middle-aged man who's trying to write about his late parents when he suddenly finds himself falling in love with his enigmatic younger neighbor Harry (Mescal). But as unexpected as their romance is, it's got nothing on what happens to Adam when he journeys back to his hometown, only to find his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) living there, just the way he remembers them when...
- 9/21/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
If early word is anything to go by, the new film from Andrew Haigh is set to hit ‘bring a full pack of tissues’ on the tear scale. Because, All Of Us Strangers is an emotional tale on many fronts – not only unfolding a tender love story between Andrew Scott’s Adam and his neighbour Harry, played by Paul Mescal, with all of the feelings that arise when a new relationship begins, but also delivering another kind of emotional twist from there. Returning to his home town, Adam goes back to his childhood home to find that his late parents (played by Jamie Bell and Claire Foy) are manifesting there, as if preserved in amber, despite have died three decades previously. It’s a set-up primed to deliver all kinds of stirring emotions about love, loss and everything in between. Check out the trailer here:
Haigh’s latest – his first...
Haigh’s latest – his first...
- 9/21/2023
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
Fresh off the film’s sterling reviews out of the fall film festival circuit, Searchlight Pictures has unveiled the first trailer for “Weekend” and “45 Years” writer/director Andrew Haigh’s new film “All of Us Strangers.”
The film stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a screenwriter who has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Oscar nominee Paul Mescal) one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London. The encounter “punctures the rhythm of his everyday life” and Adam and Harry get closer. But when Adam is pulled back to his childhood home, it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died 30 years before.
The trailer is soundtracked by a twist on Willie Nelson’s “Always on My Mind” and showcases Haigh’s knack for intimate and evocative visual storytelling. The film is based...
The film stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a screenwriter who has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Oscar nominee Paul Mescal) one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London. The encounter “punctures the rhythm of his everyday life” and Adam and Harry get closer. But when Adam is pulled back to his childhood home, it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died 30 years before.
The trailer is soundtracked by a twist on Willie Nelson’s “Always on My Mind” and showcases Haigh’s knack for intimate and evocative visual storytelling. The film is based...
- 9/21/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
One of the year’s more emotional movies has its first trailer.
On Thursday, Searchlight Films debuted the teaser for “All of Us Strangers,” writer-director Andrew Haigh’s new film with Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy. The movie premiered at this year’s Telluride Film Festival and had audiences in literal tears during its first showings in the Colorado mountains.
Here’s the plot summary, via Searchlight:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and find himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they...
On Thursday, Searchlight Films debuted the teaser for “All of Us Strangers,” writer-director Andrew Haigh’s new film with Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy. The movie premiered at this year’s Telluride Film Festival and had audiences in literal tears during its first showings in the Colorado mountains.
Here’s the plot summary, via Searchlight:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and find himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they...
- 9/21/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Searchlight UK has revealed the first trailer for ‘All of Us Strangers,’ the feature based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada.
One Night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), 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 (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) appear to be living, just as they were on they day they died, 30 years before.
Directed by Andrew Haigh, the cast includes Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy.
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One Night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), 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 (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) appear to be living, just as they were on they day they died, 30 years before.
Directed by Andrew Haigh, the cast includes Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy.
Also in trailers – “Have you been dreaming about me” Trailer drops for A24’s ‘Dream Scenario’
The post “How’s it goin..?” Trailer drops for ‘All...
- 9/21/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott are closer than ever in the trailer for Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming gay romance “All of Us Strangers.” Helmed by Andrew Haigh, the film is an adaptation of Taichi Yamada’s 1987 Japanese psychological novel “Strangers.”
The two actors star as neighbors-turned-lovers — a screenwriter named Adam (Scott) and the enigmatic Harry (Mescal). As their relationship evolves, Adam returns to his childhood home to discover that his three-decades-deceased parents, played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, are seemingly alive.
Haigh previously directed the 2011 gay romance drama “Weekend” along with the 2017 coming-of-age road film “Lean on Pete.” “All of Us Strangers” seems to mark one of his most personal endeavors yet. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Haigh said, “To suddenly deal with my own past at the same time as I was telling a story about someone else dealing with their past — I’m not sure if it was foolish,...
The two actors star as neighbors-turned-lovers — a screenwriter named Adam (Scott) and the enigmatic Harry (Mescal). As their relationship evolves, Adam returns to his childhood home to discover that his three-decades-deceased parents, played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, are seemingly alive.
Haigh previously directed the 2011 gay romance drama “Weekend” along with the 2017 coming-of-age road film “Lean on Pete.” “All of Us Strangers” seems to mark one of his most personal endeavors yet. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Haigh said, “To suddenly deal with my own past at the same time as I was telling a story about someone else dealing with their past — I’m not sure if it was foolish,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Mescal is giving Andrew Scott the chance of a lifetime: to speak with his deceased parents.
Mescal and Scott co-lead “All of Us Strangers,” written and directed by Andrew Haigh (“Weekend”).
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, screenwriter Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died 30 years before.
“All of Us Strangers” is produced by Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Sarah Harvey and was previously known as “Strangers,” with the film being loosely based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel of the same name.
The feature screened at Telluride and will make its New York premiere at NYFF.
Mescal and Scott co-lead “All of Us Strangers,” written and directed by Andrew Haigh (“Weekend”).
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, screenwriter Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died 30 years before.
“All of Us Strangers” is produced by Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Sarah Harvey and was previously known as “Strangers,” with the film being loosely based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel of the same name.
The feature screened at Telluride and will make its New York premiere at NYFF.
- 9/21/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
If there is one distributor starting its fall festival season with a bang, it’s Searchlight Pictures. While others like A24 and Neon are still touting their big Cannes acquisitions, providing films like “The Zone of Interest” and “Anatomy of a Fall” a second wave of praise, a Venice premiere for Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things,” and a Telluride premiere for Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” has made the Disney subsidiary the talk of both towns this weekend.
Focusing on Telluride specifically, with select tastemakers having seen the film beforehand, “All of Us Strangers” quickly shot to the top of attendees recommendation list to their fellow festivalgoers after its opening day premiere. The fantastical romantic drama is the British director’s third film at the Telluride — a fact festival director Julie Huntzinger pointed out in the press briefing. However, the word she used to describe “All of Us Strangers” was “transcendent.
Focusing on Telluride specifically, with select tastemakers having seen the film beforehand, “All of Us Strangers” quickly shot to the top of attendees recommendation list to their fellow festivalgoers after its opening day premiere. The fantastical romantic drama is the British director’s third film at the Telluride — a fact festival director Julie Huntzinger pointed out in the press briefing. However, the word she used to describe “All of Us Strangers” was “transcendent.
- 9/3/2023
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
All of Us Strangers, a tearjerking supernatural drama written and directed by Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years and HBO’s Looking), had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Thursday and then screened again on Saturday at the Werner Herzog Cinema. Adapted from Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel but altered by Haigh into a story more personal to him, the film — which Searchlight will release on Dec. 22 — wowed critics but may prove a slightly tougher sell to Academy members. They do occasionally embrace supernatural stories (see: The Shape of Water and Everything Everywhere All at Once), but seem to prefer examples of the genre that leave fewer questions unanswered.
Strangers’ strongest shots at awards season recognition are probably Haigh’s screenplay and the performance of the film’s leading man, Andrew Scott (aka “the hot priest” from season two of Amazon’s Fleabag), which is quiet and soulful but makes a major impression.
Strangers’ strongest shots at awards season recognition are probably Haigh’s screenplay and the performance of the film’s leading man, Andrew Scott (aka “the hot priest” from season two of Amazon’s Fleabag), which is quiet and soulful but makes a major impression.
- 9/3/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Andrew Scott sees dead people, but he could also see an Oscar nomination come his way with his heartbreaking and tenderly emotional turn as a gay screenwriter in Andrew Haigh’s drama “All of Us Strangers.”
Loosely based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel “Strangers,” the film follows screenwriter Adam (Scott), who, after an encounter with his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), is mysteriously pulled back into his childhood home, where it appears his long-dead parents (played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are actually alive — and haven’t aged in 30 years.
Emmy nominee Scott (guest drama actor in 2020 for “Black Mirror”) has been seamlessly maneuvering back and forth between film and television, notably garnering massive attention for his “hot priest” role on “Fleabag.” He absorbs the underlying pain of losing parents, while also grappling with the lingering question of whether they would approve of you or not. It may sound like...
Loosely based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel “Strangers,” the film follows screenwriter Adam (Scott), who, after an encounter with his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), is mysteriously pulled back into his childhood home, where it appears his long-dead parents (played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are actually alive — and haven’t aged in 30 years.
Emmy nominee Scott (guest drama actor in 2020 for “Black Mirror”) has been seamlessly maneuvering back and forth between film and television, notably garnering massive attention for his “hot priest” role on “Fleabag.” He absorbs the underlying pain of losing parents, while also grappling with the lingering question of whether they would approve of you or not. It may sound like...
- 9/3/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Telluride film festival: Scott, Mescal and Claire Foy shine in a drama about a screenwriter who visits his childhood home to find his parents, who were killed in a car crash, still living there
Andrew Haigh’s mysterious, beautiful and sentimental film is a fantasy-supernatural romance about loneliness and love. It concerns the climacteric of middle age when you realise you are probably nearer to death than birth, there is no guarantee that you will live your life inside a relationship and your parents were ordinary, vulnerable people – just like you.
All of Us Strangers is adapted by Haigh from the Japanese novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada, translated into English by Wayne Lammers (already filmed in Japanese), possibly tilting away from the the original’s tone of disturbing possibilities towards a melancholy sweetness, and very much keeping its feel for the eerie and the uncanny but finding something gently revelatory in these things.
Andrew Haigh’s mysterious, beautiful and sentimental film is a fantasy-supernatural romance about loneliness and love. It concerns the climacteric of middle age when you realise you are probably nearer to death than birth, there is no guarantee that you will live your life inside a relationship and your parents were ordinary, vulnerable people – just like you.
All of Us Strangers is adapted by Haigh from the Japanese novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada, translated into English by Wayne Lammers (already filmed in Japanese), possibly tilting away from the the original’s tone of disturbing possibilities towards a melancholy sweetness, and very much keeping its feel for the eerie and the uncanny but finding something gently revelatory in these things.
- 9/1/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A quasi-memory film with the out-of-body feel of a waking dream, All of Us Strangers is in some ways a companion piece to Andrew Haigh’s stunning 2011 breakthrough, Weekend. But it also feels like something new, strange and soul-stirring that the director has been working toward his entire career.
Adapting the 1987 novel Strangers, by Japanese author Taichi Yamada, Haigh has rendered the story acutely personal, making the protagonist a queer writer in his 40s and downplaying the ghost elements of his dead parents to move away from genre into more dramatic, psychological and profoundly emotional territory.
The Searchlight release, opening Dec. 22 after screenings at the Telluride and New York film festivals, is both specific to Haigh’s life and relatable enough to connect with anyone who has experienced the comforts and sorrows of both familial and romantic love.
For a generation of gay men, especially, its reflections on coming of age in the 1980s,...
Adapting the 1987 novel Strangers, by Japanese author Taichi Yamada, Haigh has rendered the story acutely personal, making the protagonist a queer writer in his 40s and downplaying the ghost elements of his dead parents to move away from genre into more dramatic, psychological and profoundly emotional territory.
The Searchlight release, opening Dec. 22 after screenings at the Telluride and New York film festivals, is both specific to Haigh’s life and relatable enough to connect with anyone who has experienced the comforts and sorrows of both familial and romantic love.
For a generation of gay men, especially, its reflections on coming of age in the 1980s,...
- 9/1/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The best scene of “Call Me by Your Name” has nothing to do with fruit, but a frank father-son conversation. Brittle to the point of breaking, Timothée Chalamet sits on the couch, arms crossed, resenting his dad for acknowledging the source of his anguish. “You’re too smart not to know how rare, how special, what you two had was,” Michael Stuhlbarg tells the boy. “I may have come close, but I never had what you two have. … How you live your life is your business.”
Gay men rarely receive that kind of acceptance from anyone, much less their parents, and hearing those words uttered in “Call Me by Your Name” went a long way to heal that wound for many who didn’t get that satisfaction from their own folks. Half a dozen years later, Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” feels like a feature-length expansion of that...
Gay men rarely receive that kind of acceptance from anyone, much less their parents, and hearing those words uttered in “Call Me by Your Name” went a long way to heal that wound for many who didn’t get that satisfaction from their own folks. Half a dozen years later, Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” feels like a feature-length expansion of that...
- 9/1/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Haigh wants to caress your spirit with his delicate and unassumingly poetic “All Of Us Strangers.” It is an otherworldly rumination on grief, love, loneliness and trauma, as well as a sophisticated ghost story that takes a page out of Joanna Hogg’s “The Eternal Daughter” for anyone carrying around a baggage of unspoken sorrow.
Caress your sprit Haigh does, for a while, with the kindness we come to expect from the lyrical British filmmaker of “45 Years”—a swelling account of the blind spots of a marriage—and “Lean on Pete,” an aching meditation on Americana on the fringes which, in a just world, would have been as widely celebrated as its closest thematic companion, the Oscar-winning “Nomadland.”
One of the most tender storytellers of our time, Haigh then pulls something else out of his magical sleeve in due course. Just like he did with those former aforesaid gems,...
Caress your sprit Haigh does, for a while, with the kindness we come to expect from the lyrical British filmmaker of “45 Years”—a swelling account of the blind spots of a marriage—and “Lean on Pete,” an aching meditation on Americana on the fringes which, in a just world, would have been as widely celebrated as its closest thematic companion, the Oscar-winning “Nomadland.”
One of the most tender storytellers of our time, Haigh then pulls something else out of his magical sleeve in due course. Just like he did with those former aforesaid gems,...
- 9/1/2023
- by Tomris Laffly
- The Wrap
In Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel, All of Us Strangers was a ghost story of a son reconnecting with his long-dead parents while navigating romance in the current era. In adapting this weird story for the screen, writer-director Andrew Haigh made some changes, largely making the main character gay, not heterosexual, and letting the ghostly elements disappear into a feeling that this is all happening in the present day, even if son and parents are essentially the same age.
The film traverses two eras through the eyes of one man, Adam (Andrew Scott), a lonely 40ish screenwriter who is dealing with midlife issues when a man from the same apartment complex comes knocking one day. Harry (Paul Mescal) is a more freewheeling and sexually comfortable soul who is looking for a more conventional gay relationship when he is thrust into Adam’s complicated world. And for Adam, that means an odd...
The film traverses two eras through the eyes of one man, Adam (Andrew Scott), a lonely 40ish screenwriter who is dealing with midlife issues when a man from the same apartment complex comes knocking one day. Harry (Paul Mescal) is a more freewheeling and sexually comfortable soul who is looking for a more conventional gay relationship when he is thrust into Adam’s complicated world. And for Adam, that means an odd...
- 9/1/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Another year, another “strange time” for festivals. And yet, despite a pair of on-going strikes and an entertainment world that seems hellbent on remaining in flux, as the air turns chillier, it’s still time for the laurels to come out, and there are plenty of new films to get excited about seeing soon.
This year’s fall festival season includes new films from Hayao Miyazaki, Michael Mann, David Fincher, Ellen Kurras, Yorgos Lanthimos, Errol Morris, Pablo Larraín, Kitty Green, Andrew Haigh, Harmony Korine, and Anna Kendrick, and that’s only the start. There are films about everything from vampiric dictators to (actual) dicks, dumb money to stupid dreams, true stories of courage to fake stories of Nicolas Cage invading people’s minds, at least one very big suit, and so very much more.
And while a handful of films have opted to skip out on the festivals, like the...
This year’s fall festival season includes new films from Hayao Miyazaki, Michael Mann, David Fincher, Ellen Kurras, Yorgos Lanthimos, Errol Morris, Pablo Larraín, Kitty Green, Andrew Haigh, Harmony Korine, and Anna Kendrick, and that’s only the start. There are films about everything from vampiric dictators to (actual) dicks, dumb money to stupid dreams, true stories of courage to fake stories of Nicolas Cage invading people’s minds, at least one very big suit, and so very much more.
And while a handful of films have opted to skip out on the festivals, like the...
- 8/29/2023
- by Kate Erbland, Ryan Lattanzio and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Searchlight UK has revealed a set of first-look images for ‘All of Us Strangers,’ the feature based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada.
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. Photo by Chris Harris. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2023 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved. Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2023 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.
One Night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), 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 (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) appear to be living, just as they were on they day they died, 30 years before.
Paul Mescal. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. Photo by Chris Harris. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2023 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved. Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2023 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.
One Night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), 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 (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) appear to be living, just as they were on they day they died, 30 years before.
Paul Mescal. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.
- 8/24/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
According to “All of Us Strangers” filmmaker Andrew Haigh, Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott hit it off immediately while on the set of the upcoming gay romance film.
“There was chemistry between the two of them literally the second I saw them together,” Haigh said in an interview with Vanity Fair. And in terms of the sex scenes: “Both of them were pretty fearless. There was no sense of them being afraid of approaching those scenes. They knew how important they were.”
Based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel “Strangers,” the film follows screenwriter Adam (Scott), who, after an encounter with his neighbor Harry (Mescal), is mysteriously pulled back into his childhood home, where it appears his long-dead parents (played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are actually alive — and haven’t aged in 30 years.
Haigh, who helmed the 2011 queer indie classic “Weekend” and served as a director and executive producer...
“There was chemistry between the two of them literally the second I saw them together,” Haigh said in an interview with Vanity Fair. And in terms of the sex scenes: “Both of them were pretty fearless. There was no sense of them being afraid of approaching those scenes. They knew how important they were.”
Based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel “Strangers,” the film follows screenwriter Adam (Scott), who, after an encounter with his neighbor Harry (Mescal), is mysteriously pulled back into his childhood home, where it appears his long-dead parents (played by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are actually alive — and haven’t aged in 30 years.
Haigh, who helmed the 2011 queer indie classic “Weekend” and served as a director and executive producer...
- 8/23/2023
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal have undeniable chemistry in “All of Us Strangers,” according to writer-director Andrew Haigh.
The film, which follows a screenwriter (Scott) who falls for his mysterious neighbor (Mescal) and revisits his childhood in a surreal way, features “fearless” sex scenes, as Haigh told Vanity Fair.
“There was chemistry between the two of them literally the second I saw them together,” Haigh said of Mescal and Scott. “Both of them were pretty fearless. There was no sense of them being afraid of approaching those scenes. They knew how important they were.”
Haigh added that he approached love scenes differently than past films like “Weekend” for “All of Us Strangers,” saying, “I’ve been more objective in how I’ve shot sex scenes in the past. Here, I really wanted to feel the subjective nature of having sex and what it feels like — the nervousness and the excitement...
The film, which follows a screenwriter (Scott) who falls for his mysterious neighbor (Mescal) and revisits his childhood in a surreal way, features “fearless” sex scenes, as Haigh told Vanity Fair.
“There was chemistry between the two of them literally the second I saw them together,” Haigh said of Mescal and Scott. “Both of them were pretty fearless. There was no sense of them being afraid of approaching those scenes. They knew how important they were.”
Haigh added that he approached love scenes differently than past films like “Weekend” for “All of Us Strangers,” saying, “I’ve been more objective in how I’ve shot sex scenes in the past. Here, I really wanted to feel the subjective nature of having sex and what it feels like — the nervousness and the excitement...
- 8/23/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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