Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Country: US
Technical: col 139m
Director: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong
Synopsis:
A laundromat owner is so preoccupied with her insolvency issues and tax audit that she neglects her daughter and husband, whilst also caring for her ageing ingrate of a father. Fortunately one of her husband's alternate selves from a parallel universe arrives just in time to avert disaster and turn might-have-beens into can-dos.
Review:
The first film to deal lightheartedly with the multiverse (cf. Doctor Strange) is like the Wachowski brothers on acid. Moving at a zillion miles an hour and in half-subtitled, half-Chinese American, its screwy logic is not always easy to follow, nor does it convince that the problems of an adolescent girl coping with lesbianism and weight issues might somehow contribute to the implosion of the multiverse; however, on the basis that a bit of wit and invention go a long way, and given the committed advocacy of Miss Yeoh, it does end up a positive, even touching experience, though not as funny as it would like to be. Divided into three chapters of decreasing length, part one being plenty long enough for a feature film, it also has serious structural issues - which are part of the point, I get that: almost infinite possibilities honed down to one, via love and acceptance.
Country: US
Technical: col 139m
Director: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong
Synopsis:
A laundromat owner is so preoccupied with her insolvency issues and tax audit that she neglects her daughter and husband, whilst also caring for her ageing ingrate of a father. Fortunately one of her husband's alternate selves from a parallel universe arrives just in time to avert disaster and turn might-have-beens into can-dos.
Review:
The first film to deal lightheartedly with the multiverse (cf. Doctor Strange) is like the Wachowski brothers on acid. Moving at a zillion miles an hour and in half-subtitled, half-Chinese American, its screwy logic is not always easy to follow, nor does it convince that the problems of an adolescent girl coping with lesbianism and weight issues might somehow contribute to the implosion of the multiverse; however, on the basis that a bit of wit and invention go a long way, and given the committed advocacy of Miss Yeoh, it does end up a positive, even touching experience, though not as funny as it would like to be. Divided into three chapters of decreasing length, part one being plenty long enough for a feature film, it also has serious structural issues - which are part of the point, I get that: almost infinite possibilities honed down to one, via love and acceptance.
Country: US
Technical: col 139m
Director: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong
Synopsis:
A laundromat owner is so preoccupied with her insolvency issues and tax audit that she neglects her daughter and husband, whilst also caring for her ageing ingrate of a father. Fortunately one of her husband's alternate selves from a parallel universe arrives just in time to avert disaster and turn might-have-beens into can-dos.
Review:
The first film to deal lightheartedly with the multiverse (cf. Doctor Strange) is like the Wachowski brothers on acid. Moving at a zillion miles an hour and in half-subtitled, half-Chinese American, its screwy logic is not always easy to follow, nor does it convince that the problems of an adolescent girl coping with lesbianism and weight issues might somehow contribute to the implosion of the multiverse; however, on the basis that a bit of wit and invention go a long way, and given the committed advocacy of Miss Yeoh, it does end up a positive, even touching experience, though not as funny as it would like to be. Divided into three chapters of decreasing length, part one being plenty long enough for a feature film, it also has serious structural issues - which are part of the point, I get that: almost infinite possibilities honed down to one, via love and acceptance.