Eat Drink Man Woman | Sylvia Chang, Ah-Leh Gua | A Chinese banquet that leaves you completely...

Eat Drink Man Woman | Sylvia Chang, Ah-Leh Gua | Story with much meaning and great performance

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Eat Drink Man Woman

	Eat Drink Man Woman Sylvia Chang, Ah-Leh Gua MGM (Video & DVD), 2002 average customer review:based on 105 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Chinese banquet that leaves you completely satisfied

Ang Lee just can't seem to do anything wrong, and this movie is no exception. Food is a metaphor for a widowed man's love for the three daughters he's trying to hold close to traditional Asian ways as they stretch toward the allures of the West. A subtle, mouth-watering, poignant story of love.
Order some of the best Chinese take-out your neighborhood has to offer, rent this DVD, and prepare to be majorly entertained. You may even shed a tear or two, and it won't be from the hot chili peppers in your Szechuan garlic green beans.

Story with much meaning and great performance

You maybe can't believe that the result of mixing comedy and drama will be good,but this movie can show you and can make you feel that ingredient in human-being could make the well result of nice comedy drama!
The story could make you understand about the old thinking and the modern thinking that happened in a little family in Taiwan.The different kind of love could happened via different kind of unexpectable relationships.The goal of human life could be diffent depend in what kind of situation that they are in and also could make their life change forever depend on their decisions too.
The great performance of Wu Chien Lien(who played the second daughter of a cook in this movie)could reflect the character that she played very well.She can reflect the modern thinking of woman ,also in the same time she can reflect the old thinking about principle of family's life so smoothly.
This is really good movies with much of meaning and great performance that you can't miss!

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A 5-course treat!

Ang Lee made his mark with this movie, Yin shi nan nu, his last in his native home of Taiwan before striking out for Hollywood, although Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon represented a return of sorts. Be cautioned though, don't watch this movie on an empty stomach, as the story revolves around food. A chef has lost his taste for food, and has to rely on his long-time assistant to taste the food for him. Contemplating retirement, Chu tries to bring out the most in one of his daughters, hoping that she will follow in his footsteps. However, it is in his youngest daughter that he finds a budding talent, but first he has to repair the bond between them, which had broken apart after the death of his wife. Ang Lee delicately focuses on this relationship, bringing father and daughter slowly together over the course of the movie. He fills out the story with so many spicy details that it will leave your mouth watering for more.

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So excellent a movie, it's been copied by Hollywood!

This movie is one that focuses on food to get one's mouth watering (particularly if you like the Chinese cuisine) and family. It's a story of family and daughters growing up, leaving their father. I made a large batch of Hot-and-Sour soup (Taiwanese style) for dinner after the movie inspired by suggestions by other reviews here. That was a good move.

This movie was remade in Hollywood as "Tortilla Soup", changing Chinese food to Mexican food. This movie is very nearly identical to "Tortilla Soup" which I liked even more -- probably because it's mostly in English and I did't need to read the subtitles like on Eat Drink Man Woman. However, I still very much liked this "original" version where some details are slightly different. Can't go wrong with the original! The interview with the director/co-author (who also has co-authorship credit on the T.S. version) on the DVD also is quite entertaining (and is in English).

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Food is Love.

Excellent movie for the Foodies out there. The story is the same as the one in Tortilla Soup. This one about a Chinese family. Delicious.

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