'The Wedding Banquet' Review: Heart, Humor, and a Sham Marriage

In director Ang Lee’s 1993 queer classic, The Wedding Banquet, the main, often subtextual, sources of conflict were society’s dim view of gay marriage, the AIDS epidemic and a culture unaccustomed to seeing non-heteronormative people represented seriously on-screen. More than a generation later, those issues are mostly and thankfully off the table, so any remake would have to rework the story to such an extent as to question its necessity. Well, miracle upon miracles, writer/director Andrew Ahn (Driveways) has managed to update Ang’s queer drama in clever and appealing ways, as a quartet of well-observed characters deal with issues that are specific to today’s LGBTQ+ community but are also universal.

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