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The film follows a Chinese American woman named Billi, who learns her grandmother, Nai Nai, has only a short while left to live. Billi's family has decided to schedule a family wedding before Nai Nai dies to enable her to see all the family one last time, and not tell Nai Nai of her fatal illness.
From director Lulu Wang comes The Farewell, an emotional story based on an actual lie. Starring Awkwafina, in theaters July 12.
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May 7, 2019 · The new A24 movie The Farewell proclaims to be “based on a true lie.” Billi (Awkwafina) finds out that her beloved grandmother is dying from cancer, and the Chinese-born, U.S.-raised woman ...
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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 ...
Sep 29, 2021 · The ending, of course, is where it all spills over: that devastating hug between Billi and Nai Nai, the weight of time handled brilliantly; the taxi ride away, heartbreaking from its rear-window vantage point; and finally Billi’s bird-fluttering grito across land and sea.
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In a guise to spend one last time together as a family with Nai Nai, they devise a wedding, that of Haibin's only offspring, Hao Hao, to Aiko, his Japanese girlfriend of three months, as an event, with Nai Nai to be the chief organizer in Changchun.
