![]() However, the tone of the film is so critical of the practice (and celebratory of LGBTQIA love) that it’s hard to stay too dour. ![]() And, most important to me, it’s immensely re-watchable, like all good rom-coms should be.Ī film about a teenage girl being sent to a conversion therapy campy certainly doesn’t sound upbeat. Instead, she gets the romantic comedy treatment, the race against the clock to the airport sequence, the awkward flirting that leads to more and the swoon-worthy reconciliation. Instead, the mother-daughter relationship is tested, but not broken, while our leading lady is conflicted not over her sexuality, but rather how she reinforces that truth to her family. Perhaps one of my favorite romances ever, Alice Wu’s Saving Face tackles a number of themes that easily could have derailed and become somber.
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