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      • Alice Wu's sharp first feature brings together many relationship concerns. Though Saving Face includes a few typical romantic comedic elements -- the supportive next-door neighbor, gossipy community ladies, a grumpy grandfather, and mistaken identities -- it also stands out as a rare Asian American film that centers around lesbian leads.
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  2. Parents need to know that Saving Face is director Alice Wu's romantic dramedy that focuses on the love story between surgeon Wilhelmina (Michelle Krusiec) and dancer Vivian (Lynn Chen) in New York City. Complex Chinese American women are at the center of the film, each demonstrating great courage.

  3. Saving Face. TRAILER List. Wil (Michelle Krusiec) is a lesbian, but she not dare tell her widowed mother, Hwei-lan (Joan Chen), or her very traditional grandparents. She's shocked, however, to ...

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  4. Jan 11, 2024 · Though presented as a drama-comedy, Saving Face nonetheless shares a nuanced perspective about what it means to be Asian-American in the twenty-first century in America, intersecting with the...

  5. Saving Face is a beautifully crafted movie about the fight between family tradition and finding a new way for yourself. Full Review | Dec 30, 2020. The result is a good, if occasionally uneven ...

  6. Saving Face is a funny film by written and directed by first time director: Alice Wu. It is about a widow (Joan Chen) who is in her late-40's and has a daughter who is a surgeon. She tries to set up her daughter at these Chinese dances that happen once a week but the daughter is not interested.

  7. Feb 28, 2023 · Perhaps most importantly, Saving Face is a perfect rom-com; dialogue that flows and manages lightness and depth in important moments, and transitions well between English, Mandarin, and Shanghainese. There’s banter, a meet-cute, believable chemistry, comic relief.

  8. Jun 4, 2021 · While her widowed, propriety-minded mom Gao Hwei-Lan (Joan Chen) keeps trying to set her up with eligible men, Wil actually has eyes for self-assured ballerina Vivian Shing (Lynn Chen). But Wil has...

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