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Ang Lee Film Festival - 3 Decades of Fearlessness, Part I of 3

Thursday, 02 October, 2014

October 2, 2014: The Wedding Banquet (1993) @Loyola Science Center PNC Auditorium 133, 6:45 PM

A New Yorker stages a marriage of convenience with a young woman to satisfy his traditional Taiwanese family, but the wedding becomes a major inconvenience when his parents fly in for the ceremony. Director Ang Lee came to international prominence with this warm-hearted comedy, which centers on the farcical confusion that emerges from this deception. Gao Wai Tung (Winston Chao) has never shared the truth about his sexuality with his family, and hopes to disguise his long-term relationship with his lover Simon by marrying Wei-Wei, a young artist who's only in it for the green card. But Wai Tung's parents refuse to let him off the hook easily, showing up to plan a massive wedding banquet. Naturally, the titular party spins out of control, leading to a series of events that threatens all of Wai Tung's relationships.
 
Featuring a short before-film talk and after-film Q&A with Philip Mosley
Philip Mosley is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State Worthington Scranton. He is the author of three books on cinema: Ingmar Bergman: The Cinema as Mistress; Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity; and most recently The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism.
 
The program is free and open to the public.
 
For more information: 570.941.7643 
 
Co-presented by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York and the University of Scranton’s Asian Studies Program in collaboration with the Marywood University Philosophy Department. The programming is made possible by special patron Dr. Samuel Yin, Spotlight Taiwan Grant, and the University of Scranton and Marywood University Collaborative Grant.

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Ann Pang-White

Phone: 570-941-6312
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Loyola Science Center, PNC Auditorium (133)

204 Monroe Avenue
 Scranton, PA 18510