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Kelly Marie Tran, Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-chan and Bowen Yang are best friends in ‘The Wedding … More Banquet.’ Bleecker Street When Andrew Ahn was eight years old he accompanied his family to the video store where his mother saw the VHS for the film The Wedding Banquet. “So my mom said, hey, this is that movie with Asian people that white people are watching,” said Ahn. “We should see what it’s about.” The 1993 film tells the story of a Taiwanese man who can’t be honest about his sexuality. He marries a woman from mainland China so she can get her green card and also so his parents will stop bothering him. It seems like a good plan until his parents arrive and want to plan his wedding banquet, which means he has to explain his marriage scheme to his gay partner. “So we rented it, not knowing that it was a queer film, and we watched it as a family,” said Ahn. “And it kind of blew my mind as a nascent gay boy. I still remember the very first scene of the film, which is Winston Chao at the gym, and I remember thinking, I enjoy this, but I don’t know why. And so I realized in retrospect that that had to have been the first gay film that I’d ever seen. The fact that it was a gay and Asian film feels so special to me that the earliest representation that I witnessed of queerness was also intersectional. I can’t help but think that and it set me on the right path as a person and as a filmmaker. So, it really feels very full circle and meaningful to reimagine Ang Lee’s film for today.” A lot has changed in 30+ years. To bring the story…

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