Xi Yan (1993)
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Duration: 106 minuten
Alternative titles: The Wedding Banquet / Hsi Yen / 喜宴
Country:
Taiwan / United States
Directed by: Ang Lee
Stars: Winston Chao, May Chin and Mitchell Lichtenstein
IMDb score:
7,6 (18.956)
Releasedate: 1 March 1993
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Xi Yan plot
"A little deception at the reception."
A Taiwanese yup lives with his partner in America. His parents do not know that he is gay, so he arranges a marriage of convenience with a woman. When his parents meet unexpectedly, the planned short trip to City Hall turns into a huge traditional Eastern feast.
Actors and actresses
Mrs. Gao
Mr. Gao
Wei-Wei
Wai-Tung Gao
Simon
Steve
Justice of the Peace
Baby
Andrew
Joe
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Very successful comedy from all-rounder Ang Lee, one of my favorite directors. The film in exuberant colors is filled with a lot of humour, but here and there has a dramatic undertone in which the mood swings flow seamlessly into each other. The hand of the master Lee. This can also be found in the almost flawless performances of the five protagonists. A film to watch again after a while.
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Onderhond
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- 87679 messages
- 13026 votes
Poor.
I didn't really like it to be honest. The combination of the increasingly complicated plot (lie above lie story that can usually be found in comedies) and the drama does not work for a meter. I'm really surprised that people found it credible.
The acting is also very bad, the only two characters who live a bit are the father and mother. The main trio is lousy. Visually this film is also really a graveyard, anyway the complete styling is substandard.
For many, the theme probably remains, I can imagine something about that, but otherwise this is just another outing film, only this time with an Asian twist. The migration problems and young / old ailments further stand in the way of this.
It is that the father figure also appealed to me and that Lee never really lets it sink in, but thought this was a poorly put together work that dies in its combination of genres and themes.
1.5*
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Countless films have been made of this, usually in the lighter genre, in which the (in-law) parents come on premarital prospecting, but do not actually know that it concerns a gay couple. It doesn't really stand out, but it isn't really bad either. It is, as Starbright Boy says, “a director who deals in sixes or sevens”, also with me, Brokeback mountain being the big exception, but that also had to do with the Gyllenhaal-Letger-Williams trio.
In the end everything will be fine and there will never be any major tensions. Rather, some fear and unease. A film that results in the traditional “everything will be fine story”, which is not surprising with this genre of film. Groundbreaking for Ang Lee, daring and with guts. That alone deserves praise. Effortlessly incorporates the cultural and modern contradictions or changes in his film. Good, but not overwhelming.
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