By Simran Hans In Ang Lee’s 1993 film The Wedding Banquet, the conflict centred around Wai-Tung, a closeted Taiwanese-American man, and his sham marriage to a woman. Fashioned as a screwball comedy ...

It’s always a pleasure to see queer love stories depicted with lightness and care, but overall, The Wedding Banquet doesn’t live up to the potential of its quality cast or interesting concept.

Andrew Ahn happened upon The Wedding Banquet as a kid, when his mum accidentally rented it from a video store. "We watched it together as a family, maybe a little awkwardly," the filmmaker laughs ...

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Relocating the action from San Francisco to cuddly, contemporary Seattle, The Wedding Banquet ties itself in knots to facilitate a phoney marriage in an LGBTQ-accepting environment. Lee (Lily ...

They would rent three or four movies every weekend. When Ahn was 8, his mom rented the VHS for Ang Lee’s (李安 ...

To Kelly Marie Tran, acting in “The Wedding Banquet” felt like “free therapy.” In the new film, a remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy, Tran plays Angela, an American lesbian whose ...

The final shot of Ang Lee’s 1993 The Wedding Banquet is a singular indication of a generation’s unprecedented romantic hopes. Wai-Tung Gao (Winston Chao), his boyfriend Simon (Mitchell ...

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There’s an easy intimacy and warmth that immediately emanates from Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,” an affable remake of the 1993 Ang Lee film. He crafts a cinematic world that you want ...

It takes a while for “The Wedding Banquet,” Ang Lee’s 1993 hit romantic comedy, to get to the big event of the title, but it’s worth the wait. The bride, Wei-Wei (May Chin), and the groom ...

And we're all invited to the biggest fake wedding of the year. The Wedding Banquet, one of the most highly-anticipated romantic comedies of 2025, follows the story of four best friends who are ...