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mvie mu-1058483: Ang Lee's Exotic Feast Filled with Themes of Identity, Values, & Choices

Sun, 3 May 2009 20:29:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author thevoid99 - After a couple of acclaimed films with 1992's Pushing Hands and 1993's The Wedding Banquet, the Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee was clearly becoming one of the new rising directors in the Asian film scene. Though both films were shot in...

mvie mu-1058483: Chinese Shakespeare

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:53:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author youngchinq - Let's compare Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman to Shakespeare - and by that I mean, let's talk about Shakespeare. Shakespeare is eminent because, more than anything else, his stories are interesting. Sure, Shakespearean analysts will be...

mvie mu-1058483: The Ingredients of Life, Tossed and Sautéd

Sun, 7 Mar 2004 20:22:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author metalluk - Take three themes, three daughters, and a variation on the game of Whopper, slice, dice, season to perfection, add some lemon twists, toss it all around in a wok for two hours and you have a finely tuned drama of living: Eat Drink Man Woman. This...

mvie mu-1058483: All About Basic Human Desires

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:13:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Director: Ang Lee Language: Mandarin – English subtitles Eat Drink Man Woman deals with love - family love, romantic love, and love of food and its preparation. A film about the “four basic human desires which none of...

mvie mu-1058483: Eat this up!

Tue, 25 Jun 2002 03:21:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jay40 -

This is a wonderful movie that is both tasteful and fun. I enjoyed this movie immensely and felt that the director and actors felt very passionate about father-daughter relationships, traditional-modern adjustments, and generation gaps. This...

mvie mu-1058483: Brilliant Film Puts American Comedy to Shame

Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:53:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Keel3 - The title comes from a Chinese Proverb that expresses fond wishes for the continuation of life. But anyway, if Eat Drink Man Woman is remembered for anything,it should be that it showed the film industry (especially American film industry) how...

mvie mu-1058483: How to Make Your Mouth Water

Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:58:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author VictorY. - I Am Born

As the first son born in the United States, I was the favorite grandchild of my Chinese elders. My sister, also born in the States, came first, but I was a boy. Boys are better according to old traditional Chinese culture. My...

mvie mu-1058483: Chinese food and love make a good mix

Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:25:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author carolynuk - Chinese director Ang Lee made a wonderful movie in "Eat Drink Man Woman," which circulates around food and the lives of three young Chinese women and their chef father, Mr. Chu.

When I watched this film, which was set in Taipei, I...

mvie mu-1058483: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:03:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BrianKoller - The best film of Taiwanese director Ang Lee is probably his adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1995). But leading to that success were two highly praised films that he made in Taiwan. They were The Wedding Banquet (1993)...

mvie mu-1058483: Are you hungry?!!

Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:53:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mantrazap - I watched this in 1997, as mission to rent out many foreign films as I could.

If any of you have seen this film, you'll definitely know what I'm talking about when I mention the very first opening sequence in the film.

Get ready to...

mvie mu-1058483: Simple Beauty

Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:23:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tbalbert - I grew up in a typical American family. Typically white, that is. Yet, I have always been drawn to the study of Asian culture. And of course I love Chinese film. The first time I saw this movie, I was in college. At the time, I was mostly fascinated...

mvie mu-1058483: Food, Chinese culture, and the related

Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:52:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author augustwind - I always think that at the root of the Chinese culture, there is food.

When Chinese meet people to say hi, they normally say: "Have you eaten?" Don't think you have to answer "Yes or no", for this is just equally to...

mvie mu-1058483: A Food and Culture Lesson

Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:15:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Chef_D - This movie was recommended to me by a good friend. Thank you!

Many modern Chinese families are still strongly influenced by Confucian teachings about "correct relationships". There is a part of that teaching called "thrice...