‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’: Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis Movie Fires Up SXSW Return To In-Person After Chilly Weather Opening Day

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Anyone frozen to the bone today in Austin, TX from the 39-degree, piercing wind weather could find all the heat inside the Paramount Theatre as A24’s Daniels’ AGBO movie Everything Everywhere All at Once brought moviegoing roaring back to the first SXSW in three years.The amour for the return of the big screen experience after the pandemic by the loyal, cinephile crowd here, coupled with a rollicking, non-stop martial arts 2 1/2 hour movie triggered non-stop cheers, laughs, and standing ovations that rocked the Paramount Theatre to its foundation, reminiscent of when Paramount teed off the Texas festival with A Quiet Place in 2018.It all started the minute, Janet Pierson, VP, Director of Film at SXSW, took the stage tonight to welcome everyone back after a three year hiatus and continued through the 2 hour 12 minute movie, well into the cast and filmmakers’ Q&A.“I’m so rusty,” Pierson said in the middle of rattling off some house policies; a moment which drew warm cheers from the shoulder-to-shoulder audience.“It’s so exciting to see you hear, you’re in for the treat of a lifetime,” said Pierson, “this is an amazing moment and we get to enjoy an incredible movie here at the Paramount.”Earlier at the SXSW Deadline studio, Everything Everywhere All at Once star Jamie Lee Curtis exclaimed, “This movie is going to mess with your brains!” No kidding.Indeed, a zany ride about an aging, IRS-strapped Chinese immigrant matriarch and laundromat proprietor (Michelle Yeoh) who is scraping to get by with her sensitive husband (Ke Huy Quan) amid a stale marriage, and her rebellious daughter, Eleanor, (Stephanie Hsu), who she’s long been tough on; not unlike her wheelchair bounded father (James Hong).