Screen/Society--Summer Days, Nasher Nights: Dinner and a Movie--"Eat Drink Man Woman"

Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Screen/Society--Summer Days, Nasher Nights: Dinner and a Movie--"Eat Drink Man Woman"

Film Screening:

 

Eat Drink Man Woman

(Ang Lee, 1994, 124 min, Taiwan, in Mandarin w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD) 

Director Ang Lee's follow-up to his box-office hit The Wedding Banquet is another look at ethnic and sexual conflicts in a Chinese family, with meals as a centerpiece of the film. Master chef Chu (Lung Sihung) is a long-time widower who lovingly cooks large Sunday dinners for his three daughters, who view the meals as too traditional. Secretly, however, successful airline executive Jia-Chien (Wu Chien-Lien) loves traditional cooking and would like to be a chef like her father, if women were permitted to do so. Her older sister Jia-Jen (Yang Kuei-Mei) is unmarried and cynical about men, but she becomes attracted to a volleyball coach and eventually pursues him vigorously. The youngest daughter, Jia-Ning (Wang Yu-Wen), is a college student who becomes pregnant from her frequent sexual escapades. As the film progresses, the personal relationships between the daughters and their significant others change unexpectedly.

"A delicacy... something like food for the heart." -- Washington Post

-- Winner for Best Film at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival!

-- Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominee for Best Foreign Language Film!

The Nasher Museum presents Dinner and a Movie, a film series to satisfy every appetite.

Join us in the museum café before 6 PM and enjoy ample parking, time to cool off, café dinner specials, and reserved film seating.

The free film begins at 7 PM in the lecture hall.

Reservations online or call 919-684-6032.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Nasher Museum of Art and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image

Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium