An intimate chamber piece that tightly interlaces remembrances of food and family, Wayne Wang’s quietly sensitive “Coming Home Again” adapts Chang-rae Lee’s award-winning 1995 New Yorker essay, a p…
” adapts Chang-rae Lee’s award-winning 1995 New Yorker essay, a personal piece on Lee’s caring for his terminally ill mother and cooking her Korean dishes. A filmmaker with a diverse slate that includes the likes of “The Joy Luck Club” and female-centric populist films like “Maid in Manhattan” and “Last Holiday,” Wang operates loosely in the vein of his 1995 film “Smoke” here: incisively observant and attentive to items, mining in objects emotional traces of those who touched them.
But as with his other work, he is also precise in culturally detailing a contemporary San Francisco-based Asian American immigrant family facing a major life crisis. Wang is no stranger to exploring the immigrant experience in America — in films such as “Chan Is Missing,” “The Princess of Nebraska” and “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” he portrayed the different shades of various Chinese Americans with nuance and empathy.
The meticulous, tradition-driven nature of Asian cooking, the familial dimension of which was beautifully explored in recent films like “Crazy Rich Asians” and “The Farewell,” is the main course of Wang’s film, marinating in process and specificity before it appetizingly starts to sizzle.
Such memories from the past are soundly blended in to the present-time story, thanks to Wang’s good instincts along with his editors Deirdre Slevin and Ashley Pagán. We slowly get to know what made Mom special. She was good at listening, she asked for help a lot, she was wary of using English on the phone and she endured what is hinted to be an affair between her husband and another woman.
Needless to say, the food looks fantastic throughout and, thanks to the work of food consultant Corey Lee, promises to be authentic. A small, slow film with limited theatrical prospects but profound things to say about family and grief, “Coming Home Again” feels deeply personal for Wang, who reportedly drew on his own experiences when he helped care for both of his parents in their last days.
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