In Everything Will Be, Sundance Award-winning director Julia Kwan offers a poignant and precise portrait of Vancouver’s transitioning Chinatown neighbourhood.
Kwan profiles a rich scope of subjects, whose variant perspectives and experiences as artists, entrepreneurs or developers in the historic area bring depth and heart to the neighbourhood’s quandaries—namely, the navigation of tensions between new and old. Chinatown’s diversity is portrayed with intimate grace, and the film’s cinematography is a triumph. Lucid and lush, the film captures the area’s gritty glory, luminous beneath the ever-present neon promise that “Everything is going to be alright.” It made us inexplicably homesick.
A definitive must-see, Everything Will Be offers profound insight into a culturally rich neighbourhood undergoing flux and what its future may hold. —Adrienne Matei
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