Watch an Unusual Family Reunion in ‘All of Us Strangers’ | Anatomy of a Scene

In this scene from “All of Us Strangers,” a man goes back to his childhood home and meets with his parents. The only wrinkle is that the two have been dead for 30 years.
The sequence features Andrew Scott as Adam, as well as Jamie Bell and Claire Foy playing the long lost parents.
In his narration of the moment, the film’s screenwriter and director, Andrew Haigh, noted that he filmed it in his childhood home and that it was a magical experience to get to shoot there. “It felt like a haunted house,” he said.
While Haigh said he wanted to play the scene with tenderness, he also “wanted the audience to be unsure of what we were seeing. Are they ghosts? Are they manifestations of his subconscious? Is it a fantasy? And I wanted to play with those different elements, so it felt like it could be all of those things, and sort of keep making you ask questions about what is real and what is not real.”
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Andrew Haigh is a master at intimate storytelling. I'm still recovering from his iconic work "Weekend".

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A beautiful film with great performances from all of the actors. I was already a fan of Andrew Scott from several films I've seen him in, and he is so subtle and quiet here and all the more powerful for that. I was in tears in more than a few scenes.

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Just saw All of Us Strangers today. Totally gutted by the ending. Terrific performances from all four actors -- Paul Mescal is the other one -- and Andrew Haigh, perhaps my favorite living film director/screenwriter, has taken a great leap forward in this wonderful movie.

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I'm looking forward to seeing this movie enormously! It was fascinating to hear that he chose to film this in his own childhood home. Very interesting.

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