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List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.95 Features • AC-3 • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2004 DVD Release : 18 October, 2005 |
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Saving Face description Saving Face starts like you might expect a Chinese-American lesbian romantic comedy to start: Young surgeon Wilhelmina (Michelle Krusiec, in her first starring role) has kept her sexual orientation secret from the conservative Chinese community of Flushing, NY--but when her mother (Joan Chen, The Last Emperor) becomes pregnant and is kicked out by her own parents, Wil suddenly has to juggle her mother's secrets with her own...which include her sparky new romance with Vivian (Lynn Chen), a ballet dancer and the daughter of Wil's boss. This bundle of intrigue and lust could motivate a wacky farce, but writer/director Alice Wu takes things a step further, delving into the characters' psyches and the complex social rules of their world while still crafting a strong plot and plenty of sly humor. Wu captures excellent performances from her entire cast, particularly Joan Chen, who gives perhaps her most multifaceted performance. A rich, rewarding, and delightful movie. --Bret Fetzer |
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| This is a great movie. It is a story about a 48 year-old widow who gets pregnant out of wedlock. It is also about her grown daughter, who is a physician, and who has attempted to hide she is gay her whole life.
And the movie is about the cultural rules that prohibit certain parents from supporting their gay children, and the cultural rules that prohibit certain parents from supporting their children's pregnancies conceived outside of marriage. The script is tight. The comic acting is very good and understated. The direction is very good, although some of the camera moves are a little distracting. The film editing is crisp. The film's plot forces the main characters into premature, unexpected, and notorious realizations of their prejudices. The movie is about fates and ideologies in conflict. It is about what women are willing to do to please their fathers, families, and cultures. It is about what women are willing to do to save face. And the movie is about what makes love endure. Spoiler Alert: There is a great line at the end of this film. It goes: "Punish me by leaving, fine. But don't punish yourself by treating your dreams like they're worth sh!t." |
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