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“The Wedding Banquet” illustrates the generational gap between immigrant parents and their children, especially when it comes to the expectations and traditions that are prevalent in many Asian ...
Add the expectations of would-be grandparents into the mix, and it’s a wonder any child ever gets born at all. The Wedding Banquet, Andrew Ahn’s updated rendering of Ang Lee’s 1993 comedy ...
With this revelation happening early in the film, Ahn and Schamus quickly pivot away from the expectations ... into that theme and to great success. “The Wedding Banquet” ponders the lengths ...
In writer-director Andrew Ahn’s thoughtful, funny rom-com (and occasionally romantic melodrama) The Wedding Banquet ... to squeeze into cross-cultural expectations, there is plenty of delight ...
And even Angela, being a scientist studying worms, it just kind of worked in a really great way. And I can’t imagine the film taking place anywhere else. Joan Chen in The Wedding Banquet Luka ...
In approaching The Wedding Banquet, director Andrew Ahn knew his reimagining of ... the potential of ruining something that’s already really great. That was something that was happening in my own life ...
There’s an easy intimacy and warmth that immediately emanates from Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,” an affable ... children of immigrants. Those expectations are so stifling that ...
From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating cultural identity, queerness, and family expectations. Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend ...
Director Andrew Ahn and the cast of the triumphant remake recall the "emotional weight" of the big banquet scene. On the set of Andrew Ahn’s remake of The Wedding Banquet, “there was laughter ...
The Wedding Banquet redefines what it means to say ... and identity within a web of cultural expectations. When Min (Gi-chan), a closeted Korean heir, proposes a green card marriage to Angela ...
Chris and Min, two of their best friends, are also in a tough spot because of family expectations and the stresses of being married to someone with a green card. The Wedding Banquet looks into the ...