Everything is much different in
Eat Drink Man Woman than the other films I've made. It has a bigger cast
and a lot more complex story line... I started thinking about families and how
they communicate. Sometimes the things children need to hear most are often the
things that parents find hardest to say, and vice versa. When that happens, we
resort to ritual. For the Chu family, the ritual is the Sunday dinner... At each
dinner the family comes together and then something happens that pushes them
farther apart.
Ang Lee, writer/director of Eat Drink Man Woman
A story of three sisters and their widower
father who manage to live four separate and very different
lives, whilst all meeting every Sunday lunchtime for the meal
the chef father lovingly prepares for hours. Their poor father
despairs of the three as they fail to live up to his
expectations and marry "nice young men".
One by one the daughters divulge their secret
plans for the future which are particularly non-traditional.
However, it is the father that stuns them all by the end of the
film.
Ang Lee's second film more than lives up to
the expectations of those who saw The Wedding
Banquet. Eat Drink Man Woman is a glorious film, the food
scenes will leave your mouth salivating. Inspired direction and
a simple, but surprising plot will leave a lasting impression,
and an eager awaiting of Ang Lee's future work.
