‘All of Us Strangers’ Director Andrew Haigh Breaks Down His Deeply Personal Gay Drama
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor Andrew Haigh has described “All of Us Strangers,” a spectral meditation on love and loneliness, as a deeply personal film, one infused with his own feelings about parents and relationships.
That’s not unique — write what you know is an adage for a reason. But “All of Us Strangers” may be one of the only major movies to have been shot in the childhood home of its creator.
Shortly before production commenced, Haigh knocked on the door of the house he lived in until he was 7 or 8 years old and discovered that little had changed in the ensuing decades. “The owner agreed to let us film there,” Haigh says. “He hadn’t really decorated it in 30 years, so all these memories came flooding back.
And then we used my old photos to make it look almost exactly as it had. It was so emotional for me, but it was also cathartic.
