Out of the Past / Hsi Yen / Taiwan, USA 1993
A celebration of life and reconciliation and a colorful postcard from the early 1990s. Wai-Tung is an immigrant from Taiwan living happily in New York with his boyfriend. When he enters into a sham marriage with the temperamental painter Wei-Wei in order to get her a green card and placate his traditionally-minded parents, it would seem that they have found the perfect arrangement… until, that is, his parents arrive in New York. Lee’s groundbreaking queer romantic comedy was a winner in Berlin and launched its director’s illustrious career.
Vít Kořínek
108 min / Color, DCP
Director Ang Lee
/ Screenplay Ang Lee, Neil Peng, James Schamus
/ Dir. of Photography Jong Lin
/ Music Mader
/ Editor Tim Squyres
/ Art Director Steve Rosenzweig
/ Producer Ang Lee, James Schamus, Ted Hope
/ Production Central Motion Picture Corporation, Good Machine
/ Cast Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Lung Sihung, Gua Ah-lei
/ Sales Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute (TFAI)
Ang Lee (1954). Selected filmography: The Wedding Banquet (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Ice Storm (1997), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Lust, Caution (2007), Life of Pi (2012), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016), Gemini Man (2019).
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