Underrated queer rom-com ‘Saving Face’ is also a beautiful ode to moms

Image Credit: ‘Saving Face,’ Sony Pictures Classics

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, to celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend, let’s revisit the 2004 queer Asian-American rom-com Saving Face.

To celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend, we are doing a deep dive into a groundbreaking romantic comedy from the early 2000s that focuses on a particularly complex mother-daughter relationship, with an unlikely representation of queer relationships and a focus on Asian-American identity at its center.

Last month, the remake of the 1993 Ang Lee romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet premiered in theaters, and among the updates it makes to the original is the addition of an overly supportive mother to Kelly Marie Tran’s character played by iconic actress Joan Chen—a parent who

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