The Power of Love with Andrew Haigh

Homophilia

WOW Podcast Network

Comedy

4.4 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Writer and director of the instant classic All Of Us Strangers (and Weekend, and HBO’s Looking, and much more) Andrew Haigh takes a break from a packed awards season to talk about the joyous queerness of mid-‘80s pop music, the useful loneliness of the queer experience, the link between parental love and romantic love, and- AFTER A BREAK, DON’T SAY YOU WEREN’T WARNED- what’s going on in this beautiful, devastating movie. Also: Max Richter, Hercules and Love Affair, and Harry & Meghan.

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1:17.0	The writer and director of my favorite movie of 2003, my favorite movie of the last 10 years perhaps.
1:26.0	Andrew Hay, thank you so much for talking to us.
1:30.0	Wow, thank you. That's a nice way to be introduced.
1:33.0	Well, I mean, it's, it is the absolute truth.
1:37.0	All of us strangers is, is such a beautiful movie.
1:41.0	And you are in LA right now. I'm in LA right now. Yeah, I've been backwards and forwards the
1:47.1	last few months but yeah it's right. It's good doing the doing the trail of talking about it and doing all those things.
1:53.2	Yeah, but no, it's great, it's good.
1:56.1	How is that for you as the movie opens wider and wider?
1:59.2	How have those conversations been? You know, look, it's quite a long process sometimes when you're doing all the press,
2:06.1	because you know, the film premiered in Telluride and that's back in September.
2:10.0	So it's been a pretty long amount of time talking about it.
2:13.4	But the truth is that sometimes no one wants to talk to you,
2:17.5	and this time people do want to talk to me.
2:19.9	And it helps people get to see the film.
2:21.7	And I'm really proud of the film and I'm glad that it's out there and being seen.
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