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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Alice Wu |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2004 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony Pictures |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Comedies & Family Ent., Comedy, Comedy Video, Feature Film-drama, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396035256 |
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Customer Reviews of Saving Face
FORBIDDEN LOVE STORY This movie is about families in transition from a mainly Chinese (American) and trans generational woman's point of view. To begin with, Alice Wu's SAVING FACE is bilingual, half in Chinese [easy to read subtitles] mixed with English. The movie tries to bridge the divide among three generations of Chinese-Americans living in New York City, and three women struggling with their cultural and sexual identities. <
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>The obvious plot is that Wilhelmina's (Michelle Krusiec) mother (Joan Chen), a 48 year old widow has become pregnant which disgraces her professor father -- and bewilders her daughter "Wil." Meanwhile, Wil is a brilliant young surgeon who is being set up for marriage in the tight knit Chinese community with an assortment of eligible bachelors at "compulsory" community dances. But Wil never has time to even begin dating a pre-selected husband. She hasn't even had time for coming to terms with her own sexuality. Conveniently, she can always hide behind her busy medical career. <
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>Enter the gorgeous and sensual Vivian (Lynn Chen) -- who is not only a meteorically rising ballerina-cum-modern dancer, but her father is chief of surgery and Wil's supervisor. The two young women have a brief encounter at a "compulsory" community dance, and Vivian is smitten by the hapless Wil. Throughout the film, everyone is hiding something -- Wil's mother hides the identity of her unborn baby's improbable father (who, as it later turns out, loves her deeply adnb she loves him). Will hides her inevitble sexual liasons with Vivian. Vivian is the only one who dares coming to terms with her love for Mil. But her dancing career is beginning to take off and if Wil cannot soon dare to expose the reality of their relationship then Vivcian will have to sadly move on without her. <
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>Most of film is about the seeming impossibility of the three women to solve the problems of their forbidden relationships. This is the result of the intense pressures put on them by a constantly intervening, conservatively traditonal Chinese community. <
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>Rather than seeing this as the clich? of a "lesbian film" -- I'd rather relax with the timeless human problem (like the star crossed lovers Romeo and Juilliet) in this film about women falling into deeply passionate, albeit forbidden love. Director (screen writer) Wu brilliantly takes us through the angst felt by each of the women -- and keeps us guessing as to whether or not they will be able to resolve their problems so that they may live happily ever after with the person who they love. <
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>So I look upon this delightful movie not as a "lesbian film" but rather as a movie about three women who must try to consumate their love which is forbidden by their community. Two of the women happen to be in love with one another; that is, they're lesbians. <
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>Great film. I loved the characters in it.
Nobody Is Safe
I remember watching the preview of Saving Face a week before I got it and for some reason I was expecting it to be more comedy than love story. It slipped my mind what this film was really about but after the first fifteen minutes you see how the two girls look at each other and it becomes loud and clear. If you ask me Saving Face isn't really a love story but more like a story showing that even if it's a girl dating a girl relationships are all the same. That's clear when Vivian (Lynn Chin) gets mad at Wil because her hectic life of being a surgeon leaves her no time to spend with her new love. The love wasn't strong enough to pull you in but the comedy definitely is. You also have the mystery of who is the man that Wil's (Michelle Krusiec) Mom is secretly seeing and got her pregnant. Although Saving Face can get a little long at times it's still worth a watch. You may get a different vibe from it than I did but it's a good film no matter what.
Saving Face
I love this movie! I think I have developed a crush on the beautiful Lynn (Vivian), the love interest for Michelle (Wil) Although I do enjoy the mother and daughter relationship in the movie, I wished it concentrated more on the two gorgeous lovers. Alice, will there be a Saving Face II? And Lynn, please star in more movies, I love you!