The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in January
Awards season is upon us, which means a raft of Oscars-bait movies are arriving in cinemas, some great and others not so fantastic. Lucky for us, January features three or four truly astonishing movies. And we start with the film that might well clean up at the Baftas...
Film of the month: All of Us Strangers
Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers is, and I mean it quite literally, unbearably devastating. Halfway through this spellbinding tangle of loneliness, love and gayshame, I gave up the battle to suppress the out-of-control sobbing. It deserves to be seen again and again, so long as you can bear the emotional carnage.
plays Adam, a screenwriter and seemingly the only person living in), also gay and offering booze and maybe more, knocks at his door. Both are lonely (as their residence in the building and every single camera shot in this evokes), but Adam’s isolation is compounded by the death of his parents three decades earlier when he was 12.
