All of Us Strangers: sex, death, ghosts and that ending – discuss with spoilers

Andrew Haigh’s supernatural fantasy about a grieving screenwriter is a bittersweet journey into love and heartbreak.

Does it get it right, and did you cry?• This article contains spoilers for All of Us StrangersSo … did you cry? All of Us Strangers has finally been released in the UK after leaving cinemagoers in the US, and at various film festivals, in floods.

It’s won seven gongs at the British Independent Film awards and is up for six Baftas, but no Oscars – whatever.

For me, the film’s achievement is the way it’s managed to talk about love, grief and loneliness in such a powerful and original way.

I first saw it at the end of September when it hit me like a ton of bricks, and I can honestly say that I’ve thought about it every single day since.When I interviewed writer-director Andrew Haigh before Christmas,…