Director Andrew Ahn on reimagining Ang Lee’s queer classic ‘The Wedding Banquet’

Filmmaker Andrew Ahn still reels from the standing ovation he got at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for The Wedding Banquet, his nothing-novel yet slick, incredibly heartfelt remake of Ang Lee’s Oscar-nominated 1993 classic. 

“That’s the first time that’s happened in my career, and I was very overwhelmed,” he says, when he hops on a Zoom call with me. “And my boyfriend saw it for the first time at Sundance at that premiere screening. I was not prepared in many ways.”

“But...