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All Of Us Strangers movie review: Andrew Scott is sublime in tender ghost story | Hollywood

All Of Us Strangers movie review: How is the world different for queer people? Ask any gay man about their relationship with their parents and there will no easy way out. The wobbly, transient space for queer relationships out in the open, to be accepted by our dear ones, is still inaccessible to many. There’s coming out and there’s no going back from there. A gay man might just be different because he wasn’t heard long enough, and so he has forgot what it feels like to be heard, or even seen for what they are. These are some questions that breath life into the new drama All Of Us Strangers. (Also read: The Zone of Interest movie review: Jonathan Glazer’s chilling study of human complicity is an immediate masterpiece) All Of Us Strangers movie review: Andrew Scott in a still from the film. A tricky tightrope of balance threatens to disrupt the beauty of Andrew Haigh’s fifth feature: a film that refuses to be slotted into the frenzy of a genre. It is a …

From Novel to Screen and Tokyo to London: The journey of All of Us Strangers

The highly praised film All of Us Strangers, featuring Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, is an adaptation of Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers. Originally, the novel was adapted into the 1988 Japanese film The Discarnates. However, the new adaptation, directed by Andrew Haigh, takes the story from Tokyo to London, showcasing Haigh’s creative vision. The director said “Adapting the book was a long and sometimes painful process. I wanted to pick away at my own past as Adam does in the film. I was interested in exploring the complexities of both familial and romantic love, but also the distinct experience of a specific generation of gay people growing up in the 80s. I wanted to move away from the traditional ghost story of the novel and find something more psychological, almost metaphysical.” Yamada and his family were incredibly respectful of Haigh’s vision.  Andrew Haigh, renowned for his poignant portrayals of human relationships in movies such as Weekend and 45 Years, brings his unique style to All of Us Strangers. The story revolves around Adam, a …