Saving Face  Reviewer Philippa Hawker August 4, 2005 Wilhemina
is played by Michelle Krusiec.  Wilhemina is played by Michelle
Krusiec. Photo: Supplied  * * 1/2  (M)  Palace Como, Brighton
Bay  Alice Wu's romantic comedy is about concealment and
accommodation, about keeping up appearances and maintaining
facades.  Her central character, New Yorker Wilhemina Pang
(Michelle Krusiec) is a driven and talented young surgeon who
doesn't have much time for a social life beyond the weekly
dances she is forced to attend by her widowed mother (Joan Chen)
- rituals for the Chinese community where gossip is swapped and
marriage alliances planned. Wil briskly waltzes and dodges
dates, but on one occasion, her attention is caught, in a
fleeting encounter with an elegant young woman called Vivian
(Lynn Chen).  At work, she catches up with Vivian again, and the
mutual attraction is clear. But while Vivian is out to her
family, Wil is not: their relationship remains, at her behest,
covert.  Things are additionally complicated