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The Farewell (Chinese: 别告诉她; pinyin: Bié Gàosu Tā; lit. 'Don't Tell Her') [ 3 ] is a 2019 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Lulu Wang . It stars Awkwafina , Tzi Ma , Diana Lin , and Zhao Shuzhen .
Jan 4, 2020 · A five-week-long shoot in Changchun, China— complete with hoverboards, a banquet's worth of crab and a surprise visit from 300 dancing kindergarteners— resulted in a headline-grabbing Sundance ...
By telling The Farewell's story through the eyes of a Chinese-born girl who was raised in the United States and is now returning to her homeland, writer-director Lulu Wang allows Western audiences to empathize with Billi's complex feelings about unfamiliar Chinese traditions and attitudes.
Jul 23, 2019 · The Farewell follows a very indie protagonist, Billi, a 30-year-old first generation Chinese-American writer living in New York City, struggling to make ends meat. Billi’s life becomes more complicated when she discovers her grandmother, Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen), has Stage 4 lung cancer and that her parents are leaving in the morning for China ...
Lulu Wang's The Farewell is a particularly articulate piece of filmmaking. It beautifully captures the sense of alienation of a child of two cultures, and finds warmth and humour in little family...
Aug 6, 2019 · The Farewell tells the story of Wang’s own family: of how they withheld her grandmother’s lung cancer diagnosis from herself, and of the wedding they put on as a pretense to gather the entire family for her grandmother’s final days. (Spoiler: Wang’s real-life grandma actually survived her cancer.)
Jul 24, 2019 · From the moment “The Farewell” opens, its main characters tell lies that flow from their mouths smoothly and deliberately, as if they are speaking in code. Many people of East Asian descent ...
Hello, Love, Again is an upcoming Philippine romantic drama film directed by Cathy Garcia-Sampana from a story and screenplay written by Carmi G. Raymundo and Crystal Hazel San Miguel, with Olivia Lamasan co-writing the former and the sequel to the 2019 film Hello, Love, Goodbye.The film stars Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards, with the supporting cast including Joross Gamboa, Valerie ...
