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All of Us Strangers (2023)
Mum: They say it's a very lonely kind of life.Adam: They don't say that anymore.Mum: So you're not lonely?Adam: If I am it's not because I'm gay. Not really.
My number one movie of last year Andrew Haigh's masterpiece All of Us Strangers is now out on 4K blu-ray today thanks to the wonderful wonderful folks over at Criterion -- pick up your copy here (as if y'all didn't already have it pre-ordered from when I first announced it was coming out). Here is my review of the movie, where I said of it "an epic of intimacy with a staggering open wound of a performance from Andrew Scott in its lead, All of Us Strangers is so brave in its honesty we’re all left naked babes wailing in its wake."
(Heyyy Paul.) It's a movie that hit me harder with every re-watch -- every single actor in this film should have been nominated for an Oscar, along with all of the people behind the scenes in every single category, and it's total lack of nominations stands as further proof the Oscars are total shit. TOTAL SHIT. Anyway that's hardly news -- I'm just so glad that Criterion's giving it a proper physical-media release. Since it was a streamer's film and it made no money there was no gaurantee that it would get this. So go shower your money on Criterion in appreciation!
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— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) September 10, 2024
4 comments:
I can't watch this again. It's just too sad.
It was such an odd mix of devastating and aspirational. Like, I want that guy's apartment, and I want Paul Mescal to show up drunk at my door.
I couldn't connect with this clearly well made, well acted film. Maybe it's too personal and I don't share the same life experience to access it. I don't know. I really tried.
Loved 3/4ths of it but the ending fell flat for me. I get the point it was trying to make but something about the execution of it didn't land for me. I wish it had gone for a hopeful ending with romantic potential instead, or hell, even a happy one.
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