Our resident king of wistful romance is again, because the first trailer for Paul Mescal’s All of Us Strangers, a surrealist love story directed by Andrew Haigh, has been launched. The trailer opens with Mescal’s Harry assembly Adam—performed Andrew Scott of Hot Priest fame—with whom he rapidly develops an intense relationship with, the sort the place Adam shares traumatic occasions from his previous just like the tragic passing of his mother and father when he was a preteen.
The plot summary describes an opportunity encounter between Adam and his “mysterious neighbor Harry. “As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with reminiscences of the previous and finds himself drawn again to the suburban city the place he grew up, and the childhood residence the place his mother and father (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), look like residing, simply as they had been on the day they died, 30 years earlier than.”
This type of surreal, sci-fi/fantasy-tinged romance story has turn out to be more and more standard, with movies like A Ghost Story and Panorama with Invisible Hand incomes vital reward. The trailer’s tender method to intergenerational relationships additionally recollects Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman, which centered on the bond between a mom and her younger daughter.
All of us Strangers is “loosely adapted” from a 1987 novel by Taichi Yamada, which was beforehand tailored into an acclaimed horror film known as The Discarnates in Japan shortly after its launch. The movie seems characteristically attractive for Haigh, and sees Mescal placing a signature tone of tender and troubled.
In an August Vanity Fair feature on the making of the film, Haigh praised each Mescal and Scott for his or her commitments to the roles and the intimacy that the script required. “There was chemistry between the 2 of them actually the second I noticed them collectively,” Haigh stated. “Each of them had been fairly fearless. There was no sense of them being afraid of approaching these scenes.”
Early opinions for All of Us Strangers have been extremely optimistic, with outlets like Variety praising the movie for sidestepping tearjerker conventions and the film’s “dreamy liminal tone.” The Guardian gave the movie five stars, as Peter Bradshaw cited the appearing work by the 4 leads, together with Claire Foy and Jamie Bell as Adam’s mother and father—he additionally famous that the film’s climactic scene could also be polarizing for viewers.
Mescal’s appearing slate is packed, together with main the thriller A Spy By Nature, the lead position in Richard Linklater’s Merrily We Roll Alongside, and headlining the stacked cast of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator sequel. All of Us Strangers might be launched on December 22.
