If you loved Lars and the Real Girl, try Saving Face

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Saving Face has roughly 7.9× fewer votes than Lars and the Real Girl — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Lars and the Real Girl, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Saving Face is

Here's a film aware of its own cultural specificity. Wil, a young surgeon, hides her sexuality from her widowed mother, who has just been ousted from her own parents' home after becoming pregnant. Eventually, both women's secrets are revealed. It might just change a few hearts and minds.

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