TW/USA 1993, 103’, DCP, OmU, R: Ang Lee
Wai-Tung, young, career-minded and attractive, is under pressure: His friend Simon wants more time together, the job demands full presence, his tenant Wei-Wei doesn’t pay rent and his parents in Taiwan want him married as soon as possible. Wai-Tung quickly enters a sham marriage with Wei-Wei, but when the parents unexpectedly arrive and demand a lavish wedding banquet, the plan gets out of control. With his unerring sense for meaning and sensuality, Ang Lee stages queerness as well as cultural and generational conflicts in New York of the 1990s as a witty comedy with painful undertones, and thereby laid the foundation for his international career. Introduction: Werner Busch (film journalist)