This film was originally selected as an AFI Movie Club pick on November 11, 2020.
SAVING FACE, directed by Alice Wu and starring Michelle Krusiec (DWW Class of 2021) and Joan Chen, follows Wilhelmina “Wil” Pang, a gay Chinese-American doctor whose life is upended when she finds herself juggling her unwed, pregnant mother unexpectedly moving in with her and a burgeoning relationship with a ballet dancer (Lynn Chen).
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If you have a subtle & cheeky sense of humour…this will likely be a fit! If you’ve received belly laughs from ‘Keeping Up with the Joneses’, ‘Hot Pursuit’, and ‘Bend It Like Beckham’…this might also keep you chuckling and re-watching scenes (just to see how many times you’re able to laugh at the punchlines!) 🙂
(Shame that a number of reviews stress more of the ‘Rom’ than the ‘Com’ —- I feel like more viewers would be drawn to the film if they new how much they’d be laughing!)