Il banchetto di nozze di Ang Lee

Wai-Tung vive a Manhattan con Simon. I genitori non sospettano neppure lontanamente che il loro figlio sia omosessuale e insistono perché si sposi. Wai-Tung pensa di risolvere la situazione con un matrimonio di convivenza con la sua inquilina, una ragazza taiwanese che ha bisogno della carta verde. Tutto sembra filare liscio, finché i genitori di Wai-Tung volano a New York per festeggiare il matrimonio.

The Wedding Banquet

The Wedding Banquet (Pinyin: X?yàn; Wade-Giles: Hsi yen), is a 1993 film about a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires when his parents arrive in America to plan his wedding banquet.

The film was directed by Ang Lee and stars Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein, May Chin, Ah Lei Gua, Dion Birney, Sihung Lung, and others. The Wedding Banquet is the first of two movies that Ang Lee would make about gay characters; the second is Brokeback Mountain (2005). Lee himself makes a cameo appearance in the film as a wedding guest attending the banquet. The film is a co-production between Taiwan and the United States.

Plot summary

Awards

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Golden Space Needle of the Seattle International Film Festival and the Golden Bear of the Berlin Film Festival in 1993.

From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsi_yen

Sources

Wikipedia – The Wedding Banquet
Imdb – The Wedding Banquet IMDB profile