‘All Of Us Strangers’ Review: Paul Mescal & Andrew Scott Bring Conviction To Ghostly Story Of Love Lost And Found – Telluride Film Festival
deadline.comIn Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel, All of Us Strangers was a ghost story of a son reconnecting with his long-dead parents while navigating romance in the current era.
In adapting this weird story for the screen, writer-director Andrew Haigh made some changes, largely making the main character gay, not heterosexual, and letting the ghostly elements disappear into a feeling that this is all happening in the present day, even if son and parents are essentially the same age.
The film traverses two eras through the eyes of one man, Adam (Adam Scott), a lonely 40ish screenwriter who is dealing with midlife issues when a man from the same apartment complex comes knocking one day.
Harry (Paul Mescal) is a more freewheeling and sexually comfortable soul who is looking for a more conventional gay relationship when he is thrust into Adam’s complicated world.
Read more on deadline.com