‘All of Us Strangers’ cinematographer Jamie Ramsay on the ‘yin and yang’ of main character’s two worlds [Exclusive Video Interview]

“It’s quite rare In this day and age to read a script that really feels fresh and new and interesting,” remembers cinematographer Jamie Ramsay about reading the script for “All of Us Strangers,” written by Andrew Haigh loosely based on the Japanese novel “Strangers” by Taichi Yamada. “This was one of the very rare moments where I’ve read a script and been so enthralled by the subject matter that I haven’t been able to put it down.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Ramsay above.

Also directed by Haigh, “All of Us Strangers” tells the story of Adam (played by Andrew Scott), a gay screenwriter living in a lonely apartment complex who reunites with his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) 30 years after they died in a car accident. “It’s such a nuanced and layered subject matter to think about,” Ramsay says. “I looked at the two worlds that were obvious in the script, which was Andrew Scott’s sort of day-to-day life, and then the world where he goes back and he starts to reminisce with his parents.”

“There’s a bit of a yin and a yang to it,” Ramsay explains about visualizing Adam’s two worlds. His everyday life is “a bit more responsible, using more motivated light sources and practical color palettes.” Revisiting the literal ghosts of his past, meanwhile, “was a bit more dreamy, using secondary colors and stuff that was a bit more representative of his past and an ’80s color palette and lighting that’s more indicative of that era.” Then it was a matter of “blending the two of them together” as one world influences the other throughout the film. In a story with so much focus on memory, he wanted to make sure the visual worlds of the past and present “could hold hands.”

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