Asian lesbos on the big screen
ok, that title just opened the door to the millions of nasty Asia-phile, lesbian fetishers on the www...
Anyway, the NAATA Asian American Film Festival opened this Thursday. I got to see Alice Wu's Saving Face. I'm always cautious about expecting too much from anything that has a lot of "queer Asians being ostracized from the Chinese community" stuff going on in the blurb. I was also still recovering from the L Word. My trepidation was unwarranted, Saving Face was GREAT! It was funny, compassionate, and had some good "aaawww...isn't that cute" moments.
The cast (including the h-o-t Joan Chen) were there. The two younger lead women were not that interesting--although they look cute on screen, but Joan Chen has that mesmerizing heavy actor presence. I've noted her seat number and plan to stalk that chair every time I'm in the Castro Theater. A bunch of us were hanging out on the curb afterwards when Alice Wu (the director) walked out. I turned to be star struck and she walked right over and said, "Thanks for coming to see my movie! It's great to see everyone here." She was so friendly and sincere that for a second I thought maybe she knew someone I was with, or that I had met her before. But no one knew her. She was just a very kind director of a pretty cool movie. It's been bought by Sony and will be released in late May. Go check it out.