Why Alice Wu’s Saving Face is the most important Asian-American lesbian film ever made

20/02/2026 12 Views

This is the latest instalment in a feature series reflecting on instances of East meets West in world cinema, including China-US co-productions.

Sometimes seemingly modest films have the greatest making-of stories. So it is with the 2004 romcom Saving Face, the first American film about an Asian-American lesbian couple to get a cinema release.

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