Everything, everywhere, all the time: this is perhaps the place that the film
Everything Everywhere All At Once
will occupy at the Oscars 2023, which will be held on March 12 in Los Angeles.
Already rewarded, among other things, with two Golden Globes (that of best actress for Michelle Yeoh, and best actor in a supporting role for Ke Huy Quan), the film, released on August 31 in France, has accumulated 11 nominations for supreme awards. of American Cinema, including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay.
Directed by ex-clippers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schneider (known as “Les Daniels”),
Everything everywhere
all at once
was produced by A24 studios, a rising star in independent cinema to which we owe the Oscar winner
Moonlight
, but also
Midsommar
,
The Lobster, Heredity
or the
Euphoria series.
The film is, to date, his biggest commercial success.
Trailer:
Everything everywhere all at once
, with Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis
Multiverse
The story it unfolds starts with a break-up.
Laundromat manager Evelyn Quan Wang (Michelle Yeoh) has to deal with several sources of anxiety at the same time: her husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) wants her to sign divorce papers, her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) struggling to get him to accept his girlfriend, his father Gong Gong (James Hong) arrives from China to visit him.
Not to mention a tax audit conducted by a very inconvenient inspector played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
A woman on the verge of implosion, Evelyn suddenly discovers a passage to a multiverse in which different versions of herself exist.
There's the dimension where she still lives in China, and became a martial arts master and movie star;
the one where she is a chef in a restaurant.
But also the one where everyone is decked out in sausages as fingers.
An infinity of territories threatened by the formidable Jobu Tupaki, an evil entity wishing to destroy everything, who is none other than an "alternative" version of Joy.
That only his mother, Evelyn, has the power to stop.
Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis awarded with the trophy for best performance by an actor in a film at the SAAG Awards (Century City, February 26, 2023.) FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP
Tote?
You don't understand anything about it?
It is normal, and it is perhaps to grasp the complex implications of this imbroglio-scenario that
Everything everywhere all at once
lasts 2h19.
But also to allow the Daniels to deploy all the ideas, conceptual and visual, that may have crossed their minds.
At the risk of overdoing it: revolutionary film tackling subjects such as mental health and the importance of family for some in a new way, geeky catchall and full of bluster for others, Everything everywhere all
at ounce
remains in any case one of the phenomena of the year, having exceeded, five months after its release in March 2022 in the United States, the bar of 100 million dollars in revenue.
It remains to be seen whether our universe will be the one where he will be crowned with one or more statuettes.