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Apr 28, 2020 · April 28, 2020. By KC Bailey/Netflix. Among the infinite catalog of scenarios in which a person might come to terms with their own queerness, Alice Wu ’s version was, by her own admission,...
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May 25, 2020 · It was lauded for its groundbreaking representation, but also for its flip of the classic rom-com form; it was about a budding romance between two women, but also about how they could reconcile their queerness within their critical Chinese family.
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Jun 11, 2020 · The former was a groundbreaking rom-com about a young surgeon named Wil, who struggles to reconcile her queerness with the expectations of New York City’s conservative Chinese immigrant community. The latter, however, was a turn into young adult drama, following a teen named Ellie who enters a secret scheme to help a jock woo the prettiest ...
May 12, 2022 · Alice Wu's 2004 film Saving Face does not feel the need to overdramatize or sensationalize queerness. Alice Wu presents a queer story with a compelling lack of sensationalism....
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Oct 12, 2020 · October 11 2020 1:11 PM EST. Alice Wu knows about coming out. She's not only written about it at length through her debut feature film Saving Face and her Netflix movie The Half of It, but...
May 27, 2020 · May 27 2020 4:39 AM EST. This interview was conducted as part of The Advocate's interview podcast, LGBTQ&A. Alice Wu was working as a software engineer at Microsoft when she wrote the first...
May 30, 2023 · The 2004 queer romantic comedy was years ahead of its time — a story of a young Asian American woman struggling to come out to her mom, just as her mom starts to rediscover love herself — and...
