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Audio Format: DD 2.0 Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 Languages: English, Mandarin Subtitles: English Region Code: 1 Year Made: 2002
ast and present mix together in the solid family-drama feature debut by Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, Face. In two parallel storylines that eventually converge, two young Chinese-American women butt heads with family and tradition in Queens, New York. In 1977, Kim (Bai Ling of Anna and the King) challenges her community's prejudices by pursuing a career, but is forced into a shotgun wedding after being impregnated during a date rape. In the late 1990s, nineteen-year-old Genie (Kristy Wu, of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) challenges her community's prejudices by dating an African-American deejay, Michael (Treach, of Naughty by Nature). Thus the title of the film?Face, as in keeping or saving face.
These two women?no surprise?are mother and daughter. Kim fled New York when Genie was a baby, so both women have been raised by Mrs. Liu (Kieu Chinh of The Joy Luck Club), Kim's mother and Genie's grandmother. Though Genie spars often with her grandmother, as any teenager would, she dotes on her, too, and deeply resents her mother's abandonment. When they receive a letter from Kim announcing a visit to New York for Genie's graduation, Genie is not pleased.
Bai Ling's excellent interpretation of Kim goes from optimistic and forward-looking, to anxious and overwhelmed, to superficially diffident and cold. She cannot quite throw herself at her daughter's feet and beg forgiveness. Genie is, after all, the unwanted child of rape, representing everything that constricted Kim. (The rape, incidentally, depicted via an ominous montage, is one of the film's directorial high points.) Finally, as Genie's supportive boyfriend, Treach has a delicate take on his generic Perfect Guy role, whose non-specificity is disguised by the fact that he's African-American, he's a cool deejay, and he's got some good lines. (??Man, you're like an angry black man in an Asian girl body!??) The only problem with the casting, really, is that Bai Ling and Kristy Wu look absolutely nothing like each other.
Special Features:
- Letterboxed
- Deleted Scenes
- Tre Hardison Music Video
- Behind The Scenes: Peking Opera Recording Session
- Storyboards
- Stills Gallery
- Trailers
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