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Face
Directed by
Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
R
2002
89m
Drama
6.2
63%
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Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
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Cast of Face
Bai Ling
Kim
Kieu Chinh
Mrs. Liu
Kristy Wu
Genie
Treach
Michael
Ken Leung
Willie
Tina Chen
Mrs. Chang
Deedee Magno
Kelly
Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
Director / Writer / Producer
Oren Moverman
Writer
Alexa L. Fogel
Producer
Joseph Infantolino
Producer
Face Ratings & Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Ling, delicate and haunted, and Wu, a real spitfire, make their reconciliation sting as much as it soothes.
New York Post
Russell Scott Smith
It's a tale worth telling again -- especially if you feel the material as strongly as recent Columbia film-school grad Bertha Bay-Sa Pan seems to.
New York Times
Dana Stevens
A meditation on the conflict between family loyalties and personal ambition, Face is the kind of independent film that can feel slight on a first viewing. But like its original soundtrack... it is likely to remain in your head long afterward.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Feels like the stretched-out short student film that it is.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A sincere but superficial version of a familiar story.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
[Pan's] actors are exceptional.
Filmcritic.com
Nick Schager
The director seems all too cognizant of her pedestrian script's inability to express more than superficial pathos.
Internet Reviews
Steve Rhodes
A picture to admire even if not quite one to recommend.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Too slight in realization and trite in characterization to work as it might have.
Film Threat
Merle Bertrand
Face does a number of things well.
Newark Star-Ledger
Lisa Rose
A film with visual flair, musical inspiration and dramatic gravity. From the top to the bottom of the cast list, there are performances rich in detail and intelligence.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
It is the best performance of [Ling's] eclectic international career, and it raises the level of this otherwise competently made movie to something more special.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Well made, nice performances, very slowly paced.
E! Online
E! Staff
Bertha Bay-Sa Pan gets good performances -- notably from Ling, who convincingly evolves from mixed-up coed to successful businesswoman.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
By the end of Face, we've been drawn deep into the battle for both communal support and individual freedom that marks the progress of so many ethnic groups in America.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Face takes a subject that might have drowned in sentiment and treats it with humor, keen vision and a hard (but not callous) edge.
Variety
David Rooney
The story's conflicts between modern and traditional attitudes, family and independence feel like familiar fodder, and the pedestrian approach fails to inject much freshness into the material.
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
The movie never really finds a fresh groove.
Wisconsin State Journal
Rob Thomas
The performances are almost enough to overcome the story's essential inertness.
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
With no access to these women's inner selves, we are left wanting at least a fuller portrait of their outer lives, some way to infer the meaning that the film declines to provide.
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