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FFR 273: The Wedding Banquet (2025)

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A.C. and Kat experienced Andrew Ahn's remake of The Wedding Banquet across somewhat of a generational divide. He finds it relies on a millennial aesthetic portrayal of queer identity, with inauthentic politics. She (who watched it with Gen X family members) thought it was sweeter and more satisfying than he did. But, having also seen Ang Lee's 1993 original, Kat thinks the movies might be trying to accomplish two different things. Overall, we both wanted higher stakes and a lot more of the incredible maternal characters played by Youn Yuh-jung and Joan Chen.

Discussed in this episode:

  • Plugged In's review
  • This meme that made A.C. think of the shack two of this movie's characters live in
  • Our 2024 episode about Pedro Almodóvar's short film Strange Way of Life starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke
  • The "Driver's Ed" sketch from I Think You Should Leave, featuring Patti Harrison
  • Kat's essay about Twin Peaks
  • Justinian Huang's novel Lucky Seed

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    • twitter.com/kat_ex_machina

      • Find A.C.:

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      • instagram.com/aclamberty

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