If all you had was a vague logline, you would be forgiven for assuming “The Farewell” is a farce.
After all, writer-director Lulu Wang’s 2019 dramedy centers on a Chinese-American family who, upon learning their grandmother has terminal cancer, hastily schedule a wedding as an excuse for all their relatives to gather and covertly say their goodbyes without telling Nai Nai she’s dying.
But for all the high jinks that do, in fact, ensue, Wang’s film is steeped in sadness and uses its premise to explore what it’s like to be a child of two…The post Lulu Wang Wasn’t Going To Let Studio Demands Derail Her Plan For The Farewell appeared first on /Film.
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