TALK TO ANYONE who’s seen it and — possibly through hacking sobs —they will tell you that Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers is one of the most moving, unusual films of the decade. It centres on Adam (Andrew Scott), a lonely man who returns to his childhood home and finds his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) waiting for him, even though they died over 30 years earlier. He tries to process his relationship with them while also attempting to build a new one with his melancholy neighbour, Harry (Paul Mescal). Ghosts, love and despair interweave in a story that’s both heartbreaking and headscratching. Here, Haigh casts light on some of the film’s secrets.
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