Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend, Chris (Bowen Yang), and facing pressure to marry from his wealthy family (to whom he hasn’t yet come out), Min (Han Gi-chan), a queer Korean man living in the US, proposes a marriage of convenience to his friend Angela (Kelly Marie Tran), offering to fund her partner Lee’s (Lily Gladstone) IVF treatments in exchange for a green card. Their plan becomes even more complicated when Min’s grandmother (Youn Yuh-jung) makes a surprise visit from Seoul and insists on organising an extravagant Korean wedding banquet. Andrew Ahn’s reimagining of Ang Lee’s 1993 film retains James Schamus, co-writer and co-producer of the original, resulting in a contemporary work that stays true to the earlier film’s vision of compassion and inclusiveness.

Are you an IFI Friend? Join us for our next IFI Cinema Club discussion after the screening at 18:30 on Tuesday 13th.

There will be Open Captioned screenings at 13.00 on Saturday 10th, and 18.20 on Wednesday 14th.

The Wedding Banquet contains sequences of flashing lights that may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or other photosensitivities.

Notes by David O’Mahony.