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The Wedding Banquet Is Rom-Com Whiplash in the Best Sense
The characters in Andrew Ahn’s remake of an Ang Lee classic can get gay-married, but they’re going to get fake straight-married instead.
The 1993 Ang Lee classic (co-written by James Schamus, who also has a writing credit on the new one) was about a Taiwanese immigrant landlord marrying his mainland Chinese tenant to get her a green card while trying to hide his gay boyfriend from his newly arrived parents. They serve as a kind of surrogate family for Angela Chen ( Kelly Marie Tran), whose girlfriend Lee ( Lily Gladstone) desperately wants to have a baby, while her best friend Chris ( Bowen Yang) still doesn’t know what to do with his life or with his artist boyfriend Min (Han Gi-chan). Ahn started his career making sensitive, restrained dramas like Spa Night and Driveways, and despite the fast-paced, colorful antics of The Wedding Banquet, the director clearly retains enough of the spirit of his earlier work to fill his characters’ quieter exchanges with emotional authenticity.
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