For 28-year-old New Yorker Wilhelmina "Wil" Pang (Michelle Krusiec), life is a juggling act between a promising career as a surgeon and her responsibilities as a dutiful daughter. Like the #7 train she takes to visit her Chinese family on a weekly basis, Wil is perpetually in transit between two worlds. The expectations of the transit between two worlds. The expectations of the Flushing, Queens society she is from 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 (Joan Chen) and the old world Ma represents.
The masquerade is comic even in its pain as Wil tolerates Ma's weekly set ups with eligible Chinese-American boys at the Friday Chinese socials; but it quickly becomes a farce when Ma's mask cracks first. even in its pain as Wil tolerates Ma's weekly set ups with eligible Chinese-American boys at the Friday Chinese socials; but it quickly becomes a farce when Ma's mask cracks first One night, Wil comes home to find Ma on her doorstep -- pregnant. Disgraced by the Chinese community, and with nowhere else to go, Ma moves in with her daughter making it difficult for Wil to nurture a budding relationship with gorgeous dancer Vivian (Lynn Chen). As her carefully compartmentalized worlds collide, Wil is forced to find her mother a husband, placate her girlfriend, and choose between breaking a cycle of keeping up appearances, or risk losing the girl she loves.
Para Wilhelmina "Wil" Pang, neoyorquina de 28 años, la vida es una representación de juegos malabares entre prometedora carrera como cirujana y sus responsabilidades como hija obediente. Al igual que la una vez por semana, Wil está permanentemente en tránsito entre dos mundos. Las expectativas de la sociedad de Flushing, Queens, de la que procede, y su propio deseo de alejarse de ella han logrado que Wil e satisfecha con la vida paralela que ha optado llevar, a pesar de que ello conlleve un involuntario juego de charadas con su madre viuda y el viejo mundo que ést representa.
El baile de máscaras es cómico incluso en dolor, ya que Wil tolera las citas semanales que su ma americanos de procedencia china en las reuniones sociales chinas de los viernes; sin embargo, cuando la máscara de Ma se resquebraja por primera vez, enseg todo se convierte en una farsa.
ORIGINAL TITLE :: TÍTULO ORIGINAL Saving face
YEAR :: AÑO 2005
RUNNING TIME :: DURACIÓN 91 min.
COUNTRY :: PAÍS USA :: Estados Unidos
DIRECTOR :: DIRECTOR Alice Wu
SCREENWRITER :: GUIÓN Alice Wu
COMPOSER :: MÚSICA Anton Sanko
CINEMATOGRAPHER :: FOTOGRAFÍA Harlan Borsmajian
CAST :: REPARTO Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Lynn Chen, Jessica Hecht, Ato Essandoh, David Shih, Brian Yang, Nathaniel Geng, Mao Zhao, Richard Chang, Ruth Zhang, Jackson Ning
STUDIO/PRODUCER :: PRODUCTORA Overbrook Entertainment
OFFICIAL WEB :: WEB OFICIAL http://www.sonyclassics.com/savingface/main.html
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