Films / The Farewell
A24 · 2019
The Farewell
- Director
- Lulu Wang
- Cast
- Awkwafina, Zhao Shuzhen, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin
- Country
- United States
- Trailer
- A24
Billi flies to Changchun for a wedding that is really a goodbye, and she is the one person the family does not trust to keep the diagnosis quiet. Wang stages the banquet as a comedy of faces that will not hold. Awkwafina plays Billi as someone who argues in English and folds in the hallway. Zhao Shuzhen’s Nai Nai runs the table. The A24 trailer calls it an actual lie. The film is interested in who the lie is for.