WATCH: Andrew Scott & Paul Mescal fall in love, talk to ghosts in romantic drama ‘All Of Us Strangers’
All Of Us Strangers is sure to be one of the most talked about (and cried over) gay movies of the year.It’s a romantic, soul-searching drama that asks some pretty thought-provoking questions such as:“How would you react if, one day, someone from your long-ago past walked back into your life, looking not a day older than the last time you saw them?”And: “What would you do if Paul Mescal knocked on your door and asked you on a date?”But, in all seriousness, All Of Us Strangers has quickly become one of the most buzzed about films of the fall festival season—and for good reason.‘Weekend’ director Andrew Haigh wanted to capture “nervousness and the excitement” of sex in his new drama.For starters, it comes from acclaimed gay filmmaker Andrew Haigh.
The British writer-director’s first feature, Greek Pete, was a portrait of a London rent boy that intriguingly blended fact and fiction.
But his second film, Weekend, was his proper breakthrough, letting audiences follow along on a one-night stand that gradually evolves into something more… or does it?Since then, he was heavily involved with HBO’s slice-of-life gay dramedy, Looking, which he co-created and directed standout episodes of—including the 2018 movie finale.
He also helmed 2015’s aching septuagenarian romance 45 Years (which earned Charlotte Rampling an Oscar nod), and the coming-of-age jockey story Lean On Pete in 2017.And it sounds like All Of Us Strangers will be his most personal film yet—due in part to the fact that a lot of it was actually filmed in his childhood home!Fleabag‘s “Hot Priest” Andrew Scott stars as Adam who—not unlike Haigh—is a gay, middle-aged screenwriter.
