The Wedding Banquet review — a gently hilarious remake
Directed by the Korean-American film-maker Andrew Ahn, this is a gently hilarious remake of Ang Lee's romantic comedy of the same name from 1993, transplanting the action from New York to the Asian queer community in Seattle and amping up the farce with not one but two same-sex couples.
Lily Gladstone, the soulful centre of Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, plays Lee, who is desperate to have a child with her partner, Angela (Kelly Marie Tran from The Last Jedi). Rather more desperate, it turns out, than Angela. 'If it happens, it happens,' Angela says. 'Not for gay people, honey,' Lee replies.
Next door live Chris (the Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang) and his South Korean boyfriend, Min (Han Gi-chan),
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Orioles take down Mariners for 4th straight win
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