How ‘The Wedding Banquet’ crafted a celebratory queer love story to meet the moment
Something’s Gotta Give with Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson:“You better be in motherf*cking love if you’re gonna ditch Keanu Reeves in Paris!,” Yang joked with Queerty.“But, no, it just taught me that you can grieve love, and also find it again, and you can love someone who is incredibly challenging to your worldview.
Love doesn’t go in order, the sequence of it is all f*cked up, but it’s still sublime.”Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.That ever-evolving, ever-growing nature of love is at the heart of Yang’s latest film, The Wedding Banquet, which world-premiered this week at the Sundance.
The project reunites him with his Fire Island director Andrew Ahn for another sharply funny, warmly realized, and super queer romantic-comedy.And before you ask: Yes, there already is a movie called The Wedding Banquet—a very good one, in fact!Back in 1993, filmmaker Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) delivered the first The Wedding Banquet, groundbreaking in its exploration of sexuality and Asian-American identity.
It follows a bi Taiwanese immigrant who agrees to marry a woman to get her a green card—and to keep his parents happy, who don’t know he’s gay.
