The main slate of the 61st annual New York Film Festival has been announced.
From September 29 through October 15, Lincoln Center and venues across NYC will be showing 32 films from all over the world, highlighting works from some of the best and brightest auteurs and debut talent alike.
One of the films that will be screening is Andrew Haigh‘s All Of Us Strangers.
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It features Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in an adaptation of the 1987 novel by Taichi Yamada of the same name. It is Haigh‘s ninth directorial feature and the sixth in which he has screenwriting credits.
All Of Us Strangers: Plot
This metaphysical romance tells the story of two men living on the edge of London. Adam (Scott) plays a screenwriter and Harry (Mescal) is his lone neighbor. As their relationship develops, Adam begins traveling to the suburbs to reconcile his tormented past and conflicted daily life.
Now, it would be fair to wonder, at this point, how the descriptor “metaphysical” comes into play. Enter Adam’s parents, played by Claire Foy (The Crown) and Jamie Bell (Rocketman) who are actually dead.
Victims of a tragic accident, they’ve been gone over 30 years but are seemingly living in Adam’s childhood home. Time hasn’t passed and they haven’t aged.
No stranger to the intricacies of LGBTQ+ plotline, Haigh delicately balances Adam’s feelings of disgrace and regret with affection and tenderness. He uses the fantasy of his reincarnated parents as a moment in time to relay what’s become of his life. It’s metaphysical, not a mystery.
Haigh started getting his feet wet in 2009 with his first full-length feature, Greek Pete, a docudrama about male escorts in London. He made a bigger splash in 2011 with Weekend, a British romance about two men who continue to embark on a seemingly doomed fling after a random meeting.
Andrew Haigh tapped two Irish actors for the lead roles – 2023 Best Actor nominee Paul Mescal (Aftersun) and BAFTA award-winner Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock). You might also recognize Scott as The Priest in the highly acclaimed British TV series, Fleabag.
All Of Us Strangers is set to be released in theaters by Searchlight Pictures on December 22.
