The Wedding Banquet
Everyone Wants To Kiss The Bride. Except The Groom.
Dig in! This "funny and poignant comedy of manners" (The New York Times), directed and co-written by Oscar nominee Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility), is an absolutely delicious feast! Winner of the Berlin Film Festival's prestigious Golden Bear, The Wedding Banquet is "top-notch comedy" (Leonard Maltin)!
Successful New Yorker Wai Tung and his partner Simon are blissfully happy, except for one thing: Wai Tung's conservative Taiwanese parents are determined he find a nice girl to marry! To please them - and get a tax break - he arranges a sham marriage to Wei Wei, a sexy go-getter in need of a green card. But when his family swoops down for the extravaganza, Wai Tung would do well to remember that, at a traditional Chinese wedding banquet, sexual repression takes the night off!
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Pleasant - Willibrord
This was a nice little film. I really enjoyed the performance of the (temporarily) spurned gay partner of the main character. Beautifully and sumptuously filmed, as one would expect from an Ang Lee movie. The surprise at the end was a neat twist. The only thing that bothered me was that there were so many subtitles -- I wish that the characters had spoken English to each other in the scenes that did not involve the main character's Chinese-speaking family.
BTW, the warning about horror/sex below the Zip synopsis gave me a good laugh!The Wedding Banquet - Tim2
This film directed by Ang Lee in 1994 is even better than the awarded Brokeback Mountain. He cleanly and cleverly brings out the homo-sexual taboo issue into the Chinese community which is very daring, but the presentation is so geniusly planned that the film was widely accepted and won film cirtics acclamation. The movie is funny but serious, it is a must to see.
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Pleasant - Willibrord
This was a nice little film. I really enjoyed the performance of the (temporarily) spurned gay partner of the main character. Beautifully and sumptuously filmed, as one would expect from an Ang Lee movie. The surprise at the end was a neat twist. The only ...The Wedding Banquet - Tim2
This film directed by Ang Lee in 1994 is even better than the awarded Brokeback Mountain. He cleanly and cleverly brings out the homo-sexual taboo issue into the Chinese community which is very daring, but the presentation is so geniusly planned that the film ...