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Wedding Banquet (Hsi Yen) 

Year: 1993
Country: Taiwan
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Dion Birney, Winston Chao, May Chin, Sihung Lung and Ah Lei Gua/
Synopsis: To get his parents off his back, a gay man arranges a marriage of convenience at the urging of his boyfriend. That's when things begin to go wrong.
Quick review: Ang Lee doesn't have to do action movies to hook you and he proves it here. This was the second film he directed and he also co-wrote the screenplay. Lee, who would go on to win an Academy Award for directing 'Brokeback Mountain,' isn't gay. But a friend of his was and the first half of this film was about that friend's relationship. Wai-Tung has been living quite happily with Simon for five years. The only problem comes in the form of audio tapes from home -- Taiwan -- where Wai-Tung's parents are waiting for a marriage and grandchild. Enter Wai Wai, who is renting a loft from Wai-Tung. She needs to marry an American soon, or she will be sent back to China. Voila! Simon has the great idea: Wai-Tung should marry Wai Wai. She gets her green card, and he gets his parents off his back. Everyone lives happily. Of course it's not that easy. Wai-Tung's parents are so happy with the news that they speed to New York to attend the wedding. And they they never leave. A two week visit stretches out to a month and shows no signs of ending. Simon and Wai-Tung are fighting. Wai Wai is feeling neglected. And no one is happy with the wedding ceremony. So, it's time for a big banquet with all the trimmings (look for a cameo by Ang Lee). Is this a perfect movie? No. Wai Wai speaks poor English through the first half of the film and then suddenly a couple of weeks later she's fluent. But it has plenty of excellent moments that show Lee's talent. And since so many gay men go through with fraud marriages to please family, this story resonates even today. Most of the gay movies of the early 1990s were awful to just bad. This is one of the good ones.
 

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