I cannot believe I waited that long before watching this movie. It was filled with funny, hilarious, but moving moments. In a way it reflected the life of Chinese immigrants in Flushing, or even in the US. However, it was also a simple love story between mom and daughter, grandparents and daughter, and partners. We have to face the fear to live the life that we are eager for. The way the director told the story showed us a lively epitome of thousands of people finding out who they are and communicating with the world with their perspective.

I watched this when I was watching lesbian movies, but I found out that this is so much more than just a lesbian movie. I found out that it's a movie where the main-character just happened to be a lesbian.Saving Face is just as Asian as it is American. I love how they switch very naturally between the language and everything about the movie and the characters give a very trustworthy picture of how it is to grow up bilingually and bi-culturally. I think especially of a scene when Vivian (Lynn Chen) eats dinner with Wil (Michelle Krusiec) and her mother (Joan Chen) and she can't speak proper Chinese and mixes it with English.I especially enjoyed the performance of Michelle Krusiec, but the movie wouldn't be the same without the other characters. Thanks to the bi- characters the movie is very funny; the neighbor, the friend who always meets her at the subway and all the men the mother tries to date, etc. But it's of course not only a funny movie, it's a funny, serious, bi-cultural, lesbian and romantic movie that speaks of family, generations, traditions and values.

I liked just about everything about this. The characters, and the clash of expectations between older and younger generations of Chinese Americans, seemed completely true to life, and the sense of a community was well brought out. It is amazing that this is the director's first film (but she is older than she looks in the Behind the Scenes featurette). Particular pleasures were the grandmother's evident boredom with her husband's pomposities, Vivian's fumbling with Chinese, which she evidently didn't speak normally despite her background, the scene in the church, and the payoff. It's not entirely clear how old Wil is meant to be (given her mother's age, hardly out of her twenties, which seems young for the responsible position she seems to have in the hospital), and it was not made at all clear how Wil's mother had got into some kind of affair with Little Yu that went far enough for her to become pregnant. But overall, tremendous.

Excellent movie. I wasn't too confident about the movie but after I've seen it I can say that is one o the best I've seen lately.It's funny,witty and deals with modern day issues. Actually, old problems - love,but in new ways.It's worth seeing and I can't wait for another movie from Alice Wu. I think she reached her goal : "What I really wanted is that a 25-year-old white guy could suddenly relate to a 48-year-old Chinese woman ...or a 50-year-old black man could relate to a 29-year-old Chinese doctor. If that works, I've done my job. Once we strip away the differences, we're remarkably similar." Good luck with "Foreign Babes in Beijing "