SAVING FACE

 

Hello, we will be screening Alice Wu's first feature film, SAVING FACE, this week in class.

Here are a few articles about Alice Wu for you to get a sense of her work and SAVING FACE, along with the interview we saw a portion of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSzuLxu_08Q Links to an external site.

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/04/alice-wu-saving-face-follow-up-the-half-of-it-netflix-1202227619/Links to an external site.

https://queerforty.com/meet-alice-wu-writer-director-of-the-half-of-it

And you can see the trailer for her new/er film, which premiered on Netflix in the Spring of 2020:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/05/01/848853718/what-alice-wu-wants-to-say-in-the-half-of-itLinks to an external site.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/feb/10/saving-face-the-half-of-it-directors-2004-lesbian-rom-com-debut-was-way-ahead-of-its-time Links to an external site.

"In Saving Face, the parallel mother-daughter stories elevate the film, offering a refreshing tale of queer-straight solidarity against patriarchy and a repudiation of fear, shame, pride and prejudice."

~Professor Kim