All of Us Strangers is a 2023 British romantic fantasy film written and directed by Andrew Haigh, and based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada.
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- All of Us Strangers is a 2023 British romantic fantasy film.
- It was written and directed by Andrew Haigh.
- The movie was based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada.
- It is the second feature adaptation of the novel, after the Japanese film The Discarnates (1988).
- The film stars Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy.
- All of Us Strangers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on 31 August 2023.
- It was released in the United States on 22 December 2023.
- It is scheduled for release in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2024, by Searchlight Pictures.
- It received critical acclaim.
- It was named one of the top ten independent films of 2023 by the National Board of Review.
- Andrew Haigh’s childhood home served as the filming location for the house Adam finds his parents in.
- Writer/director Andrew Haigh called this his most personal film yet.
- Originally titled Strangers, which is the same name as the original novel by Taichi Yamada.
- Sixth feature film directed by Andrew Haigh.
- On 30 June 2022, the film, then known as Strangers, and the principal cast were announced.
- The announced plot was brief and vaguely worded, and attracted inquiries on social media as to whether the film involved a romance between Scott and Mescal’s characters.
- Filming was in progress in the United Kingdom when the announcement was made.
- Haigh’s childhood home served as the filming location for the house in which Adam finds his parents.
- Nightclub sequences were shot on location at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
- The movie played at the 2023 New York Film Festival on 1 October 2023.
- It also made it to the main competition of the 68th Valladolid International Film Festival.
- Cork International Film Festival chose the film as its International Gala film, acting as the Irish premier, on November 19, 2023.
- The screening was held at the Everyman Theatre to a packed house. The QCinema International Film Festival hosted three screenings of the film on November 19, 20, and 24, 2023.
- It began a limited release in the United States on 22 December 2023 and is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2024.
- In its limited opening weekend, the film made $232,909 from four theaters, a per-venue average of $58,000.
- The film won seven awards at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay.
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 134 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.6/10.
- The website’s consensus reads: “All of Us Strangers examines profound grief and love through a fantastical lens that is always grounded on human emotion.”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 90 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.
- Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A−” on an A+ to F scale.
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