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The Farewell is a 2019 American comedy-drama film, written and directed by Lulu Wang.It stars Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, and Zhao Shuzhen.The film follows a Chinese American woman named Billi, who learns her grandmother (referred to as Nai Nai) has only a short while left to live.
Lulu Wang directs a bittersweet look at a young woman contending with her Chinese family's many generational conflicts. ‘The Farewell’ Review: Awkwafina Gives Her Best Performance in ...
Stretched across continents, but no less profound and idiosyncratic, the family ties that give life to Lulu Wang’s sophomore feature “The Farewell” are informed by the director’s own ...
Lulu Wang [1] (Chinese: 王子逸; pinyin: Wáng Zǐyì; [2] born February 25, 1983) is a Chinese-born American filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the comedy-drama films Posthumous (2014) and The Farewell (2019).
Awkwafina was born in Stony Brook, New York, [4] the only child of Wally Lum, a Chinese American, and Tia Lum, a Korean American. [5] Her father worked in the information technology field, [4] and comes from a family of restaurateurs—her great-grandfather immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, and opened the Cantonese restaurant Lum's in Flushing, Queens, [6] one of the neighborhood's ...
Awkwafina, Hong Lu, Lulu Wang, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, and Aoi Mizuhara at a screening of 'The Farewell' Related: How Mufasa pays tribute to James Earl Jones: 'It was something we had to do'
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In 2019, Awkwafina appeared in Lulu Wang's comedy-drama The Farewell. [13] A film about a Chinese-American family who discover that their grandmother has only a short while left to live, they decide to not to tell her and schedule a family gathering before she dies. [14]