All of Us Strangers

It’s not often you can describe something as achingly romantic but simultaneous nightmarish. Same goes for incredibly grounded but also strangely sci-fi-esque.

All of Us Strangers is not like most films and contains multitudes. This is a film about everything and nothing, loneliness and companionship, love and loss.

Beautiful and haunting, this is quite the trip into the psyche of painfully lonely Adam. In writing about his long-gone parents he suddenly finds himself able to spend time with them, exactly as they were before they died. This happens concurrently with Adam meeting Harry, possibly the only other person in the huge London apartment block he lives in, and the building of an intimate connection.

To say more would be to spoil the film but Andrew Haigh slowly and meticulously builds these relationships. Never fully explaining, always liable to pull the rug just a little, keeping undeniable tension whilst also allowing you to luxuriate in the glimpses of true happiness that Adam gets to experience.

The ending, and its open to interpretation nature, could be divisive but this is a film that will be on your mind for days after viewing. It will get the pulse pounding every which way and it’s simply outrageous that the Oscars ignored this.

In what would be a contender for Best Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Director and Best Film, All of Us Strangers is one of the all time great ‘relationship dramas.’ The fact that that descriptor so poorly describes the film is in itself a marvel. A masterpiece.

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