One of the best experiences at a film festival is walking in to see a film not expecting to care much about it, and walking out so blown away you can't stop talking about it and thinking about it. This is what happened with me watching Andrew Ahn's new take on The Wedding Banquet at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival this year. You never know when this will happen, you never know which film this will happen with, but when it does happen it's my duty to make sure I spend some extra time and attention talking about the film. The Wedding Banquet is a 2025 remake of Ang Lee's 1993 film of the same name (which I have not actually seen before). This version of the story is updated to focus on a group of four friends - a lesbian couple and a gay couple, all of whom live together in the same house in Seattle. They're all best friends which plays into the story because their friendships / relationships start to crisscross when they start to decide what to do with their future and how to move forward together (or not, perhaps, if they can't figure things out...). I laughed, I cried, I smile, I cheered, I wiped away tears. This is unquestionably one of my favorite films of the festival. // Continue Reading ›