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T
H U R S D A Y , A P R I L 2 8
OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION 7:30
p.m.
Directors Guild of America, Theatre One
SAVING FACE
(United States, 2004) Dir./Scr.: Alice Wu
Most
days, Wil (Michelle Krusiec) is a successful surgeon in New York
City. But, for a few hours every week, she is the dutiful daughter
of a widowed mother (Joan Chen), who attends a Chinese singles dance
at a school gym in Flushing. In this world, where all the chatty,
elderly matchmakers think she's a great catch, Wil blithely deflects
male attention in order to protect her very private preference for
women. But Wil also has big problems at homeóher forty-eight-year-old
mother shows up on her doorstep and announces she is pregnant. Refusing
to name the father, and disgraced in the eyes of her traditional
community, Ma moves in with her daughter. Wil can't bring herself
to tell her mother about her gorgeous girlfriend, a dancer named
Vivian (Lynne Chen), nor does she want to tell Vivian that her pregnant,
single, Mandarin-speaking mother is holed up in her apartment and
eating non-stop. Nudged by Vivian and provoked by her mother, Wil
realizes that she must take this opportunity to disinherit her mother's
legacy of emotional disconnection.
35mm, 100 minutes, Color, Narrative
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