Eat Drink Man Woman

In-person: chef and restaurateur Alice Waters.

Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.

Eat Drink Man Woman

Taiwan/U.S., 1994

With his fourth feature, co-written with Hui-Ling Wang and James Schamus, Taiwanese director Ang Lee firmly cemented his status as a major auteur. The economy and feeling of his storytelling is evident from the opening sequence establishing the home of retired chef Chu (Hui Ling Wang) as an oasis from a bustling Taipei with his kitchen at its center. From it emanates the sights and sounds of the Sunday banquets he artfully prepares that draw his three adult daughters home. Through evocative detail, Lee builds a delicate, heartwarming portrait of a family for which food and cooking is the language they communicate with as they navigate together the ever-shifting course of love and relationships in their lives.

35mm, color, in Mandarin with English subtitles, 123 min. Director: Ang Lee. Screenwriter: Ang Lee, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang. With: Lang Hsiung, Kuei-mei Yang, Chien-lien Wu.