The Solitary Passion by Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal

As in his second feature film weekend (2011), A Desconosidos (We are all strangers) Andrew Hay explores how an initially casual sexual encounter between two strangers can turn into a deeply intimate bond. Adam (Andrew Scott) lives a solitary life that weighs on him like an endless night, partly due, as we soon discover, to the sudden death of his parents when he was 12 years old. Until one evening, our neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) knocked on the door. Hay expands the starting point in a proposal that enters into the realm of the supernatural without departing from the context of realistic drama in a distance-keeping manner. My little mom (2021) by Céline Sciamma. Adam reunites with his parents in the 1980s to rethink everything he never experienced with them, from coming out to being with him in his adult life, while seemingly strengthening the relationship with Harry. But the coexistence of the real world and the imaginary world does not always flow as it does in Sciamma's film, and some of the contradictions make it difficult to deal with a film that bets everything on emotional engagement. Andrew Scott (b Hot priest From the series Flea bag) leaves the skin clear by making the intense heartache that corrodes his character clear, while Mescal brings out the seductive youth, tender and lost at the same time. The film culminates in a scene that is as fraught as it is coherent and striking, one that knows how to envision, yes, the possibility of redemptive love after death.