Brokeback Mountain may have changed LGBTQIA+ cinema’s place in the mainstream in 2005, but Ang Lee has long been fascinated with the codes of masculinity, tradition, family, and queerness. For his 1993 romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet, part of his “Father Knows Best” Trilogy, Lee looked back to the ingredients of classic screwballs and farces for the modern New York tale of a gay interracial relationship that’s foisted back into the closet when the family of the Taiwanese half comes to visit. Co-written with longtime collaborator James Schamus and Neil Peng, and starring Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein (director of Teeth), and Lee mainstay Lung Sihung, The Wedding Banquet is a bracingly funny and tender look at the imperfect path to love and happiness in the new world.

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