Saving Face

Owen Gleiberman

Saving Face, a pleasant if sketchy Chinese American family drama, is a study in multigenerational guilt tripping. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

This film, which won the 2012 Academy Award for best short documentary, is only 40 minutes long.It has the impact of an epic. ( Read More )

Cynthia Fuchs

Saving face is at once an acknowledgment of ritual and collective identity, a self reinvention, a reclaiming of roots and resistance simultaneously. ( Read More )

Every time Lewis surfaces for air, Martin gleefully shoves him back under. ( Read More )

Rob Blackwelder

Chinese American lesbian faces down traditional family in comedy drama that cops out in the end While Saving Face may be just a breezy comedy drama about a young Chinese American lesbian trying to balance her gay lifestyle with the cultural mores of her old country family, the movie has one fatal flaw among many more niggling missteps it betrays its whole premise with an unrealistically breezy and much too easy finale. ( Read More )