All US strangers (all of Us Strangers , UK, USA, 2023, color, 105 min.)
Directed By: Andre / Haigh
Script: Andrew Haigh (according to the book of the proposals of the Taičija Jamade)
Photo: Jamie Ramsa /
Editing: Jonathan Alberts
Music: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Played by: Andre Light Scott (Adam), Paul Mescal (Harr light), Carter John Grout (young Adam), Jamie Bell (dad), Claire FO light (mom), Ami Tredrea (waitress)
Produced by: Blueprint Pictures, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, TSG Entertainment
Festivals, awards : Montclair 2023: young people's Jury Award – Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay; Capri (Holl Animatood) 2023: Capri award for European actor of the year; Valladolid 2023: Rainbo / spikelet award for Best Film; Irish Film and TV Awards 2024: Ifta award for Best Supporting Actor; British Independent Film Awards 2023: Best Supporting Actor award; GALECA – LGBT Critics Association Community Awards 2024: Dorian for film of the year, Dorian for film of the year with the theme of lgbtamphil; International Cinephile Association Awards 2024: ICS Award for Best Actor, ICS Award for Best Supporting Actor, ICS award for Best Acting Ensemble; Edinburgh 2024; Hong Kong 2024
Audience reaction : a pronounced affection that practically does not know dissenting opinions
Critical response: almost unanimous recognition of excellence
Distribution: Blitz Video & Distribution
Genre: drama
Story
Adam lives in a largely empty block of flats in London. One night, his door is accidentally knocked on by Harr video, which completely changes the rhythm of his life. A relationship develops between the two men, but Adam is occupied by memories of his childhood and his home. Although his parents died thirty years ago, he decides to visit the suburbs where he grew up again. Arriving there, he discovers that his mother and father still live and look exactly like when he was twelve years old.
Comment
"The film, the script of which was written by director Haigh, drawing on the novel Aliens by Japanese writer Taichi Yamada, is very well set. He talks about the family as a source of happiness and protection, as well as misunderstanding, repressed, tragedies, breaks in relations. He talks about attempts to remake trauma, about the widespread growing alienation and about the history of society's attitude towards homosexuality. This is a film about a lonely individual, a film in a mole tone, perfectly shot; close-up dizzying shots of Adam's face show his delusion, as if the camera was trying to penetrate what is happening inside a person.«
Tanja Lesnicar Puchko, Diary
"All four actors of this chamber drama approached their roles with such openness and vulnerability that the high-concept nature of playing with space and time never overshadows the emotional dimension of the story. Especially Andrew Scott is, that we have ever known above all as a'seksi duhovnikaʹ in a brilliant series of Fleabag , hits the right note melanholičnega world, so we don't tip in melodramo.
Although all of us strangers works as a distinctly personal story, it also reveals the universal truth of our lives: no amount of fun, drugs, dancing and pairing heals the wounds we have accumulated as lonely, misunderstood children. The final act of the film will probably provoke mixed reactions; I personally find it slightly forced and cheap, but it is not really surprising – it is announced in a similar way to that first big reveal at the beginning.
Despite the deeply melancholic denouement, all strangers nevertheless offer me a kind of catharsis in the form of the realization of the power in knowing how to leave the past where it belongs – behind.«
Ana Jurc, MMC RTVSLO
"All strangers to me is a film about people who suddenly disappear from your life and then – once, again suddenly, as if they had never left – reappear as in a half-forgotten half-sleep, in which you cannot say that you never thought about them, that you did not miss them and that you did not expect them. VERY MUCH FOR.«
Marcellus, Jr., Youth