Press Release Criterion Press Release: All of Us Strangers (2023) (4k UHD Combo) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

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A metaphysical exploration of queer love and loneliness, familial grief and healing, this delicate but audacious chamber drama confirms director Andrew Haigh’s gift for bringing complicated emotions to the screen. Isolated in a seemingly empty new high-rise, London screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) finds his solitary existence upended when he begins a passionate romance with the impulsive Harry (Paul Mescal), then reconnects with his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy) in a reunion that pushes beyond the limits of time and space. Putting a deeply personal imprint on a novel by Japanese writer Taichi Yamada, Haigh reaches cosmic heights while never losing sight of the story’s achingly human heart.

FILM INFO​

• United Kingdom
• 2023
• 105 minutes
• Color
• 2.39:1
• English
• Spine #1234
  
  

  DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES​

  • 4K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio and uncompressed stereo soundtracks
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New conversation between director Andrew Haigh and author and critic Michael Koresky
  • New interview with cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay
  • Behind-the-scenes documentary and featurettes
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Guy Lodge
    
    New cover by Anthony Gerace
    
    September 10, 2024

 

[Ronald Epstein]

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[MartinP.]

Most likely would have waited for this, but it was released a week ago in Britain and I'd pre-ordered a Blu-Ray on Amazon UK. It's being released Region Free. I received it last Friday and watched it already. It has a couple short features and a poster included. Price was also excellent. I had already seen it last December. Recommended.

 

[johnmcmasters]

I really really really really wanted to love this film, but in the end there were so many narrative turns that were never really explained. I don't mind films that take a deep dive into fantasy, but leaving out any underpinnings for those turns just always turns me off. Lynch can get away with it as his films are deep dives into the unconscious and the surreal, but there were just too many things that happened in this film that we were supposed to accept I guess on faith without any real ground rules so the film really fell apart for me. I think with any supernatural story you sort of have to have at least a stab at coherence and a few "rational" ground rules -- but that's just me!! For example I love "A Matter of Life and Death", Peter Beagle's novel "A Fine and Private Place" and a host of other magic realism tales with some similar elements. This just became incoherent for me. But I know others love it, and the performances were uniformly moving and deeply felt. I may give it a 2nd chance as my knee jerk reactions are often wrong.