The Tomatometer says 93%
Posted on March 24th, 2010, by admin in UncategorizedTomorrow night,Thursday, March 25, Foodat24FramesPerSecond invites everyone to Harvard's historic Northwest Bldg B103, at 52 Oxford Street. This just completed building should not be confused with the yet to be completed Northwest Building of Harvard Law School, two blocks away, nor any building at the University of MInnesota, nor even any of the alpha-numerical buildings at MIT.
At 7PM We will be showing Director Ang Lee's classic cooking soap opera, Eat Drink Man Woman. RottenTomatoes.com is a meta site that gathers movie reviews from many sources and creates a numeric rating. In this case the Tomatometer is a very appropriate measurement and the movie's score is 93%.
Synopsis: Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu's exotic dishes, the family barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime… Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu's exotic dishes, the family barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime ritual mirrors the foursome's general lack of appetite for life: Chu has lost his sense of taste, and his daughters just want to go on with their separate, lonely lives. But something new is cooking that is about to spice up everyone's existence, and three marriages and a funeral later, the Chu family will learn to embrace life's unpredictabilty. The third and final film in director Ang Lee's Father Knows Best trilogy, EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN is laugh-out-loud funny in its depiction of the foibles of the contemporary Taiwanese family. Whenever one of the characters utters "I have an announcement," be prepared for ensuing hilarity. The film also movingly captures the complexities of modern life, the inevitability of change, and the necessity for Zen-like balance. Lee himself seems to have absorbed the film's central message. After this film, he began to take on a variety of projects, boldly covering vastly different subjects such as 18th-century England, the New Age 1970s, and the Civil War. [More]
Author Jen Lin-Liu will introduce the movie and discuss her autobiographical To Serve the People, describing her adventures as a Chinese American eating and cooking in contemporary China.
After the film we will serve vegetarian dumplings from the famous Wang's in Somerville. Hen hao.
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