Strangers

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeOlivia Laing wrote the book on loneliness. Over a decade ago, the British writer moved to New York City for the love of a man who then called it off. She stayed and sought out artists who anchored her solitude to the city. “I was possessed with a desire to find correlates,” she wrote in 2016’s The Lonely City, “physical evidence that other people had inhabited my state”. The book was…

When Andrew Haigh was shooting his new film, All of Us Strangers, in his parents’ old house in Croydon, something strange began to happen. “I started getting eczema again, and I’d not had eczema since I was a kid,” says the director, who is now 50. “It was coming up in the exact same places. I thought, ‘What the fuck is happening to me?’ I feel there is a sense that your body remembers trauma. Somehow things get almost embedded in your DNA, and they find ways to leak out.”In All of Us Strangers, this leakage happens to…

As well as the awards already won by Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, it can lay claim to a less-obvious prize – the first feature film both set and filmed in Croydon.Haigh shot much of the film in and around his old childhood home in Sanderstead, a pleasant leafy suburb to the south of Croydon, where I too grew up, eight doors down from Haigh. Andrew Scott’s character, Adam, and his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are also shown visiting the shopping centre at the heart of the south London town.Haigh has chosen to…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press Andrew Scott plays a writer trying to write something about his dead parents in Andrew Haigh’s transcendent drama “All of Us Strangers.” His parents’ death is not recent – they died when he was 12. Not that one ever really gets over that kind of loss. But we meet Adam at a moment where he is not just thinking about them but visiting them in his childhood home, where they are preparing for Christmas. Just in case it wasn’t sad enough already. “All of Us Strangers” will probably make you…

British drama All of Us Strangers has consolidated its position as a serious awards-season contender with nine nominations at the London critics’ circle film awards, including film of the year.Written and directed by Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers secured nods for three of its principal cast: Andrew Scott as actor of the year, and Claire Foy and Paul Mescal in supporting categories. The film tells the story of a romance between Scott and Mescal’s characters, with Foy and Jamie Bell as Scott’s parents who appear to have…

Underneath the radical swoon of Andrew Haigh’s ground-shifting gay drama Weekend was a swell of sadness. Clearer in the film’s more universal right-people-wrong-time romance but also in the more specific, and knottier, queerness. It was a rare, giddy uplift to see young gay men fall headfirst for each other with such believable and unfettered intimacy but their affection existed in a world full of caveats – where to kiss, how to act, who to be – and it was only in privacy that they could really be themselves. “When I’m at…

Credit: William Fortunato from Pexels Some people look forward to the holidays all year—the decorations, the food, the get-togethers. Others find that stressful, and still others may not feel up to the festivities at all. Maybe you've felt all those emotions at times this season. But one thing the holidays tend to do, says Milla Titova, assistant…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePaul Mescal has praised the sex scenes in his new film All of Us Strangers as “both really moving and also really sexy”.Speaking to Natalie Portman as part of Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Mescal said: “I think sex in film, or any form of media, when it can be healing and sexy at the same time, that’s when it’s at its best.”Normal People breakout Mescal, 27, and Fleabag’s Andrew…

All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh’s revolutionary romance starring Andrew Scott as a screenwriter grappling with the death of his parents when he was a child, has taken best picture, best director and best screenplay at the British Independent Film Awards.The film had already taken four prizes at the craft division of the Bifas last month, for editing, cinematography, music supervision and screenplay; it added three more at the ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London on Sunday. As well as the wins for Haigh, Paul Mescal…

Posted in: Comics, Current News | Tagged: fcbd, free comic book day, strangers in paradise, terry mooreStrangers In Paradise creator and publisher Terry Moore is next year's chosen artist for the official artwork for Free Comic Book Day 2024.Article Summary Terry Moore of Strangers In Paradise chosen for Free Comic Book Day 2024 art. Commemorative FCBD merchandise includes t-shirts, posters, and stickers. Moore celebrated for over 30 years of creating and self-publishing comics. FCBD 2024 aims to…