Eat Drink Man Woman
(Yin shi nan nu)

Eat Drink Man Woman unfolds like a subtle meditation on the dissonance between heritage and desire. Centered on a widowed father and his three daughters, the film builds around a Sunday ritual where cooking becomes the last language of a world coming undone. Flavors replace words; gestures reveal what speech holds back. In this ballet of aromas and unspoken feelings, Ang Lee captures a mutating society, where intimacy becomes the battlefield of a wavering modernity. Tenderness is tinged with distance, continuity with humility — everything breathes with the melancholy of a world experiencing change without losing its soul. A domestic theater where each silence belies affection and misunderstanding, and every dish becomes a fragment of memory, still warm. Jérôme Baron