"Saving Face" Film Screening

When:
Saturday, Mar 22, 2025 2:00p -
4:00p

Where:
Panethnic Pourover
77 Sleeper Street
Boston, MA 02210

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Meetup, Movies

Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-face-film-screening-tickets-1226994205699

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Director and Writer: Alice Wu

Run Time: 98 min.

Release Year: 2004

Starring: Joan Chen, Lynn Chen, Michelle Krusiec


In her 2004 directorial debut, writer/director Alice Wu was ahead of her time with this queer, Chinese American rom-com that focuses not only on the meet cute and budding romance between workaholic surgeon Wilhelmina “Wil” (Krusiec) and talented dancer Vivian (Chen), but also a scandal in their tight-knit Chinese community in Flushing, Queens, involving Wil’s mother, Hwei-Lan (Chen). It is as much a coming-out story as it is a diaspora story as the mother-daughter protagonists reckon with and reconcile the conventions of their community and their identities, dreams, and vulnerabilities. Although it didn’t garner significant mainstream Hollywood attention at the time as a lesbian rom-com with a nearly all Asian or Asian American cast, Saving Face has endured in the hearts of film watchers and filmmakers alike and established itself as a cornerstone to the ever-expanding queer Asian American canon today.


Snacks and beverages will be available, with both free and sliding-scale options.

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