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In 1993, the Taiwanese director Ang Lee released The wedding banquetA Romcom on a gay couple from Manhattan, socially conservative parents and a Chinese woman looking for a green card. During this slowly screwed tale, a baby was born. The child would now be a peer for the characters of the generation Y in the remake of the Charmer Spry of Lee. The new film is a DIY rather than a sequel, but you could always imagine that the baby of 1993 presenting himself here as an adult in a story where change and the past cannot help but coexist.
The configuration again requires a certain home, especially now that the plot depends on two couples. The first are Chino-American Chris and Korean Min, an artist with a family fortune in confidence. (They are played by Bowen Yang and Han-Gi Chan.) The urgent request for a simulated wedding is resumed, but the female half of the agreement now comes from a second gay couple, Chris and Min Angela and Lee, played by Kelly Marie Tran and Lily Gladstone (Oscar nominated for Oscar for for Flower moon killers).
Their The crisis is an attempted IVF in progress. Then, then. In a suburban house in Seattle, a pair of women with heavy medical invoices. And literally live next to it, a rich heir to need a bride. If you can see the next step, you only identified the first idea of what could make a film filled with them.
Director Andrew Ahn makes his own story, but also alludes to three decades of change of social attitudes for those who remember the original film (or even the 1990s). Other balancing acts are less assured. Melancholy Farce is a difficult memory, and despite the casting with funny bones, the film cannot really engage in Japanese comedy or deeper and more raw history than the film could be. Instead, we settle somewhere in the middle, in a hug of Squidgy Group.
And yet, with all kinds of tangents that have detached, you need a Ahn skills just to prevent the thing from collapsing. Even more to ensure that the four central characters feel like equal partners in human drama – a trick which, as a successful relationship, testifies to the love of the project and the pure work.
★★★ ☆☆
In British cinemas of May 9 and in American cinemas now
