About the Event
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
(US, 2022, 140 min.)
Friday Sept 16 and Saturday Sept. 17 | 7:00 PM
International superstar and glamor icon Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn Wang, a much put upon owner of a laundromat being audited by a sinister IRS agent (Jamie Lee Curtis) and mother of a teenager (Stephanie Hsu). She also plays Evelyn Wang, Marshal Arts Master, and Evelyn Wang, international superstar and glamor icon. And so on and on. Kwan and Sheinert (known as “Daniels”) have produced a mad turducken off a film, filled with genre madness, but also a film about felt and actual problems in this world, the only one.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is as overstuffed as its title implies, even more juvenile than its pedigree suggests, and so creatively unbound from the minute it starts that it makes Daniels’ previous efforts seem like they were made with Bressonian restraint by comparison (for context, their last feature was a sweet fable starring Harry Potter as an explosively farting corpse). It’s a movie that I saw twice just to make sure I hadn’t completely hallucinated it the first time around, and one that I will soon be seeing a third time for the same reason. I don’t ever expect to understand how it was (or got) made, but I already know that it works. And I know that it works because my impulse to pick on its imperfections and wonder how it might’ve been different eventually forfeits to the utter miracle of its existence” – David Ehrlich, Indiewire
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