Based on the 1987 book Strangers, written by Taichi Yamada, Andrew Haigh's film is a heartbreaking British film that fully deserves the description 'award worthy'.
Essentially, it's a romantic fantasy concerning the coming together of two kindred spirits and their escalating relationship. The two men - Harry and Adam - played by Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, are neighbours in an apartment block, and as their love blossoms, Adam finds himself drawn back to his childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) look exactly the same as they did some three decades earlier.
It's perhaps unfair to single out one actor from what is a quartet of terrific performances, but Andrew Scott is quite remarkable here, and certainly gets my vote as one of the finest actors currently working.
Probably the most emotional slice of cinema I'll see all year, All Of Us Strangers is many things but ultimately, it's perhaps a ghost story and reminds us there's nothing more powerful than love.
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