We Are All Strangers
In bustling contemporary Singapore, 21-year-old Junyang is enjoying the ease of youth while his father struggles to hold their modest life together. When Junyang’s relationship with his girlfriend takes an unexpected and life-altering turn, the young couple is forced to face the realities of adulthood far sooner than anticipated. At the same time, an exuberant woman enters his father’s life and heart, quietly reshaping the fragile balance between father and son. As both generations confront love, loss and responsibility, they must redefine what family means – and learn to live with the imperfect bonds between the family they were born into and the one they now choose to love.
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Revue de presse
«Ein leiser, feinfühliger Film über vier einfache Menschen in einer protzigen Stadt.» Outnow, Roland Meier
«Ein Film über ein Land, das erwachsen wird, und über Menschen, die gezwungen sind, es ebenfalls zu tun.» Kino-Zeit
«Ein leises, aber kraftvolles Porträt einer nicht ganz freiwillig zusammengewürfelten Familie vor dem Hintergrund der immer grösser werdenden sozialen Ungleichheit in Singapur.» Filmstarts
«There’s some addictively brash storytelling here from Chen, with a page-turning novelistic energy and a marvellous sympathy for the whole cast.» The Guardian
«Filmmaker Anthony Chen returns with a fifth feature that’s as emotionally generous as it is frothily melodramatic – in ways that are addictively entertaining, frustrating, and ultimately too empathetic to shun.» IndieWire
«The film is consistently involving and finally moving, sparked especially by Chen regular Yeo Yann Yann’s wonderful performance as an immigrant outsider in this family and society alike.» Variety
«We Are All Strangers operates on a level few filmmakers can achieve.» Screen Anarchy
«This involving, if slightly over-extended, drama isn’t afraid to tug the heartstrings... But it is an intelligent film in a mode of Asian domestic drama thematically adjacent to such auteurs as Hirokazu Kore-eda and Edward Yang.» Screen International