A dramedy-comedy that spans a mother’s troubles in a multiverse that’s as scary as it is burlesque, the film starring Michelle Yeoh could win a few statuettes on March 12.
Everything, everywhere, all the time. this is perhaps where the film will occupy Everything everywhere at once at the Oscars 2023 to be held on March 12 in Los Angeles. Released in France on August 31, the film has already been awarded two Golden Globes (Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh and Best Supporting Actor for Ke Hui Quan), among other things, and has collected 11 nominations for top awards. of American cinema, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.
Directed by former Clippers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schneider (aka “Les Daniels”), Everything everywhere all at once produced by A24 Studios, a rising star of independent film to whom we owe the Oscar winner Moonlightas well as Midsommar, The Lobster, a legacy or series Euphoria. The film is his biggest commercial success to date.
Trailer: Everything, everywhere, at onceWith Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis
Multiworld
The story that unfolds begins with a breakup. Laundry manager Evelyn Quan Wang (Michelle Yeo) has to deal with several sources of anxiety at the same time; her husband Waymond (Ke Hui Quan) wants her to sign the divorce papers, and her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) is trying to get through to him. receives his girlfriend, her father Gong Gong (James Hong) comes from China to visit her. Not to mention the tax audit conducted by a very awkward Inspector Jamie Lee Curtis.
Evelyn, a woman on the brink of an explosion, suddenly discovers a passage into the multiverse where there are different versions of herself. There is the dimension where he still lives in China and has become a martial artist and a movie star; the one where he is a chef in a restaurant. But also one where everyone is decked out in sausages like fingers. An infinity of territories threatened by the formidable Jobu Tupac, an evil entity bent on destroying everything, who is none other than an “alternate” version of Joy. That only his mother, Evelyn, can stop him.
Ke Hui Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis are honored with the award for Best Actor at the SAAG Awards (Century City, Feb 26, 2023). FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP
Tut?
Don’t you understand any of this? This is normal, and perhaps to understand the complex implications of this imbroglio scenario; Everything, everywhere, at once lasts 2h19. But also to allow the Daniels to deploy all the ideas, conceptually and visually, that could cross their minds. At the risk of exaggeration. A groundbreaking film that tackles topics like mental health and the importance of family in a new way, shocking to some and full of anger to others, Everything, everywhere, at once remains one of the blockbusters of the year anyway, surpassing the $100 million mark five months after its March 2022 release in the US. It remains to be seen if our universe will be one where he is crowned with one or more figurines.
Source: Le Figaro
