Friday Fiction: All Of Us Strangers (Review)

A good story, well told

Here’s this week’s Friday Fiction. This post is for paid subscribers only.

---

All Of Us Strangers, directed by Andrew Haigh

As a novelist, I analyse stories all the time. How characters are presented and change, how plots are revealed. And films can be a great way of seeing key principles in a condensed amount of time.

I showed this film at the cinema on Wednesday night, in my projectionist role. I knew nothing about it before I set it up and darkened the cinema. In fact, that’s my favourite way to approach books and films: just having the barest idea to get a feeling of whether I am intrigued; but not enough to find out clues that will reveal too much when I piece things together (don’t get me started on how many stories Chekhov’s Gun has ruined for me over the years, or how awful many film trailers are for destroying any element of surprise).