All of Us Strangers (2023) review

Solitary screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott), who resides in London, revisits his childhood home and finds his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy) still living there despite having passed away in a car accident around the time that Adam was twelve years old; back at his apartment complex, aggressive and flirty neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) keeps stopping by wanting to have a drink and become intimate.  Haigh very loosely adapted Taichi Yamada's novel Strangers, but I don't think he's successful at merging the two narratives, with him decidedly less comfortable at depicting the supernatural elements and more so when handling the budding romance between the leads, as they enjoy the city's vibrant nightlife, take drugs and sleep together.  The scene where Adam "comes out" to his mother, who isn't all that accepting of that part of him, is particularly moving - Foy's character is literally "stuck in the past" - but the movie as a whole is psychologically unhealthy: you can't spend your Earthly existence being in love (platonically or sexually) with ghosts.