‘One night in his near-empty London tower block, screenwriter Adam has a chance encounter with mysterious neighbour Harry, puncturing the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam finds himself drawn back to his childhood home, where his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they died 30 years ago.’
All Of Us Strangers has two sides to it, I went into it expecting a sad story about love and family but left experiencing that with a ghost story and an almost thriller element to it with the lines between reality and illusion blurred. I felt so encaptured by the film and whilst I expected to tear up, I didn’t expect the gut-wrenching feeling throughout, almost as though I couldn’t breathe. In all honesty, it’s not often a film makes me feel like that and Andrew Haigh did an absolutely phenomenal job.
Andrew Scott played the lead, Adam and was incredible, I’m really surprised by the lack of nominations for his role as although it is an incredibly stacked year for film, he offered one of the best performances from 2023 in my opinion. However, the whole cast was exceptional with Claire Foy and Jamie Bell playing Adam’s parents, taking us on the emotional family journey of growth and acceptance and Paul Mescal playing Adam’s neighbour and love interest Harry, who supports him on this journey of growth and love.
It’s honestly really hard to sum up this film into words, I loved it so much and it has been playing on my mind since. I always gravitate to films that provoke feeling and emotion and this was definitely one of those and that’s all I can really say without giving any more away.
I would definitely recommend seeing All Of Us Strangers as I haven’t quite experienced a film like it.
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