Everyphone Everywhere
New York Asian Film Festival 2023
July 14 - 30, 2023
Director Amos Why (Far, Far Away, NYAFF 2022) brings his wry playfulness with narrative structure and media formalism to this pointed satire of postmodern communication and its resultant technological fallout.
Director Amos Why (Far, Far Away, NYAFF 2022) brings his wry playfulness with narrative structure and media formalism to this pointed satire of postmodern communication and its resultant technological fallout. The day has come for three former classmates to meet up 25 years after graduation to share and compare time capsules of their youthful hopes and dreams with the actual lives they’re now living. Satelliting around this basic premise are the various people in each of their current situations and the modern-day foibles that have shaped their worlds, from online scams, seductions, affairs, corruption, child rearing, and marriages gone wrong to mobile phone mishaps and other clumsy predicaments. This is as much a glorious hangout movie as it is a comically prescient survey of social norms and their attendant fissures across the rocky landscape of contemporary Hong Kong.
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