Alice Wu
États-Unis 2004 98min English o.v. / Mandarin s-t. anglais

It’s never too late to fall in love for the first time. For 28-year-old lesbian New Yorker Wilhelmina “Wil” Pan, life is a juggling act between her promising career as a surgeon and her responsibilities as a dutiful daughter. Like the subway train she takes to visit her Chinese family on a weekly basis, Wil is perpetually in transit between two worlds. The expectations of her Chinese community and the desires that alienate her from it have made Wil content to live below the surface... even if it means playing an inadvertent game of charades with her widowed mother (played beautifully by Joan Chen) and the old world Ma represents. The masquerade is both comic and painful as she tolerates Ma’s weekly set-ups with eligible Chinese-American boys at the Friday socials, but it quickly becomes a farce when Ma’s mask cracks first. One night, Wil comes home to find 48-year-old Ma on her doorstep... pregnant, thrown-out by her parents, disgraced in the eyes of the Chinese community and with nowhere else to go. Ma moves in, making it difficult for the closeted Wil to nurture a budding relationship with gorgeous dancer Vivian. As her carefully compartmentalized worlds collide, Wil is forced to find her mother a husband, placate her girlfriend and attempt to break the cycle of keeping up appearances... or risk losing the girl she loves. Saving Face is a hilarious and touching film of universal appeal to anyone who has ever struggled to meet the demands of their community, their lovers and their parents. – SF

Shown on:

sunday, november 06, 9H30 PM parisien 7 - pgm24 (Saving Face)

wednesday, november 09, 9H30 PM parisien 2 - pgm49 (Saving Face)