The Wedding Banquet
by Ang Lee
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Actor: Dion Birney, Jeanne Kuo Chang, May Chin, Paul Chen, Winston ChaoDirector: Ang Lee
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: Ang Lee
Writer: Ang Lee
Producer: Dolly Hall
Producer: Feng-Chyt Jiang
Producer: James Schamus
Writer: James Schamus
Writer: Neil Peng
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Wedding Banquet
DVD Review: Great Story, Very enjoyable
Summary: 4 Stars
This is definitely a "must see" for everyone who is interested in the dynamics of family life. If Jane Austen was a gay Chinese man, this is the story she would have written.DVD Review: View of Gay Life
Summary: 5 Stars
If you know absolutely nothing about what life is like for a gay person or an illegal immigrant then this is the film to see. This film describes one of the pivotal moments in a gay person's life, when they have to tell their parents that they're gay and face the consequences. I have a gay second cousin and remember the difficulties he faced when he had to admit his situation to them. A gay acquaintance saw this film no fewer than seven times, obviously because it spoke to him.
It's also painful for illegal immigrants, living in the shadows and hoping to be able to change their status. I've known such people and believe me it's no day at the beach.
Despite the heavy themes, the film is amazingly funny, on a par with the Marx Brothers or Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night".
DVD Review: about the DVDfilm/movie wedding banquet............
Summary: 4 Stars
This story is basically about how a falke wedding marriage successfully held from one stage to another leaving the old couple a memory of the whole event from photos taken. Recommended to those whom are interested in this genre of DVDfilm/movie. also known as wedding bung kueh...hee hee...
Review by:
Dr, MR Franc MBBS (PhD) GPS Ang Poon Kah
Director lou Ye for film summer palace.
DVD Review: Gay, Green Card, Generation (Gap)
Summary: 5 Stars
(This one is for Steve Hedge.)
This film is directed by a clever Taiwanese director, Ang Lee, who was honored the academy's award a few years ago.
This black comedy has several layers: the gay, the immigration, and the old generation (the parents). An interracial relationship is never easy when you have a conservative Taiwanese parents and you are gay. A 'green' marriage could help you out from creating a mirage to your parents. Seems a win-win situation before your parents smell something fishy...
It's a great film depicts the culture shock, generation gap, and immigration issues. Yes! It's a must see.
DVD Review: Wedding Banquet Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was fantastic. You get to see how culture affects the way two men in love live their lives. The two main actors have to hide what they really feel for each other and this causes problems in their relationship. One of the men is white and the other is Chinese, but even though there are many cultural differences the two men love each other. It was a heartwarming and funny film. It is evident that this movie was low-budget but this fact only helps to make the movie look more realistic. I highly recommend this movie. :)
Description of The Wedding Banquet
Dig in! This "funny and poignant comedy of manners" (The New York Times), directed and co-written by Oscar(r) 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 Simonare blissfully happy, except for one thing: Wai Tung's conservative Taiwanese parents are determined he find a nice girl to marry! To please themand get a tax breakhe 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!This 1993 international hit by Ang Lee is a funny and poignant story of a gay, Taiwanese-American man who goes to some lengths to fool his visiting family that he's actually straight. The results are far more complicated and entertaining than anyone could have guessed. The film seems all the more rich now since Lee has become a major Hollywood director: that same sensitivity and mild bemusement he brought to such stories of manners as Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm in recent years are in full bloom in this earlier work. --Tom Keogh
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