Marvel superheroes don’t have a monopoly on the multiverses! In Everything Everywhere All at Oncethe “Daniels” (Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, known for Swiss Army Knife) make a brilliant and delirious demonstration of this by taking Michelle Yeoh into freakish worlds where inhabitants can have fingers shaped like hot dogs and time-space portals can take the shape of butt plugs.
“We found it amusing to show how a mother is able to adapt to all situations, especially when it comes to saving her family,” explains Daniel Scheinert to 20 minutes. And it works beyond the directors’ wildest expectations. A triumphant welcome at the Champs-Elysées Film Festival and near $100 million at the international box office demonstrate this brilliantly.
A comedy but not only
“Daniel Kwan drew on the memories of his family to create that of the heroine then we refined the story together based on the personality of Michelle Yeoh”, recalls the filmmaker. The duo invites the viewer to follow this overwhelmed woman on a wacky journey. She discovers there the existences that she could have lived before being confronted with a terrible threat which allows the actress, who was the heroine of tiger and dragonto demonstrate his talents for the martial arts.
“It is obvious that the success of the film was a good surprise for us, recognizes Daniel Scheinert, but it is not only that. It proves that the public does not only want formatted products and that it can be receptive to irreverent and atypical works that upset its habits. » Everything Everywhere All at Once (which can be translated as “everything, everywhere and all at once”) deserves its title by checking all these boxes. These slightly crazy adventures do not leave the viewer a second of respite by transforming their heroine into a laundromat, a dancer, a movie star or a cook, but above all the head of a family on the verge of implosion.
“The film is not just a comedy, insists Daniel Scheinert, it also evokes the difficulty that immigrants may have in responding to the injunctions for success imposed on them by their relatives back home. Michelle Yeoh, a heartbreaking warrior opposite an unrecognizable Jamie Lee Curtis as an obnoxious civil servant, brings many emotions to the heart of the action. Everything Everywhere All at Once is a UFO from which you come out exhausted but happy to have explored the multiverses in such good company.