All of Us Strangers: A film about longing, love, loneliness, and the solace of 80s pop music

Andrew Haigh's devastating film All of Us Strangers, which stars Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, is hoovering up awards and leaving audiences in pieces. He talks to Alex Needham

Andrew Scott in All Of Us Strangers. Pictures: Chris Harris, courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. 

WHEN Andrew Haigh was shooting his new film, All of Us Strangers, in his parents’ old house in Croydon, something strange began to happen.

“I started getting eczema again, and I’d not had eczema since I was a kid,” says the director, who is now 50.