Why Andrew Ahn says ‘found family’ is at the heart of ‘The Wedding Banquet’
When Andrew Ahn was eight years old, his mom went to the video store and came home with a wholesome-sounding, Asian-themed movie called “The Wedding Banquet,” directed by an up-and-comer, Ang Lee.
“She did not know it was a queer film, so we watched it as a family not knowing what to expect,” says Ahn, the son of Korean immigrants, who would go on to get a masters’s at California Institute of the Arts and to direct “Driveways” and “Fire Island.&rdq