If you loved The Wedding Banquet, try Lust, Caution
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Ang Lee, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Wedding Banquet, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Lust, Caution is
A Shanghai teahouse, 1939. A silk scarf slides from a man’s wrist as a woman’s gloved fingers tighten around it. A student actress enlists in a radical plot: woo a puppet official, then slit his throat with a blade hidden in garters. Lee’s wartime melodrama folds romance into betrayal like origami, edges dulled by candlelight.

