Eat Drink Man Woman

Director: Ang Lee

1994 / 124min / 35mm

Co-written by James Schamus and Wang Hui-ling, Lee’s gently comic family fable about a semi-retired master chef and his three daughters, the director’s only film shot entirely in his native Taiwan, is arguably the best movie about how food can connect generations ever made. The cooking scenes, rapturously shot by cinematographer Jon Lin, capture the magic, majesty, and diversity of Taiwanese cuisine, but it’s the quiet, world-weary performance by Sihung Lung as the elder chef and widower father of three daughters (played by Yang Kuei-mei, Wu Chien-lien, and Wang Yu-wen) that gives the film its heart and soul. “Wonderfully seductive, and nicely knowing about all of its characters’ appetites.” —The New York Times

Distributor: Park Circus