It's quite the Christmas tearjerker but also provides moments of levity and joy and fun, with both Mum and Dad and Harry. The most authentically sad stories aren't exclusively sad, after all. Haigh dares audiences to meet "All of Us Strangers" on its own astral plane as we whiplash between past and present in a dreamy 35mm haze of nightclubs and '80s sweaters.
It's quite the Christmas tearjerker but also provides moments of levity and joy and fun, with both Mum and Dad and Harry. The most authentically sad stories aren't exclusively sad, after all. Haigh dares audiences to meet "All of Us Strangers" on its own astral plane as we whiplash between past and present in a dreamy 35mm haze of nightclubs and '80s sweaters.
It wouldn't be a Lanthimos movie without some immense, irreconcilable discomfort, like using a highly sexualized woman with the mind of a toddler for comedic purposes. But this is hardly the first fairy tale to exploit its heroine for her innocence or naivete.