The Farewell is a new film starring Awkwafina! It is a dramedy that has already made waves at Sundance film festival!
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about this new movie!
- The Farewell is a 2019 American comedy-drama film
- It is written and directed by Lulu Wang
- It stars Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Lu Hong, and Jiang Yongbo
- The filmfollows a family who, upon learning their grandmother in China has only a short while left to live, decide not to tell her and schedule a family gathering before she passes
- The film was screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival
- It is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on July 12, 2019, by A24
- The film was based on an story initially shared on This American Life
- Wang said that the film was based on her grandmother’s illness
- Stating that “I always felt the divide in my relationship to my family versus my relationship to my classmates and to my colleagues and to the world that I inhabit. That’s just the nature of being an immigrant and straddling two cultures”
- The film was primarily shot in Changchun, China
- The filming also took place in New York
- In an interview with Filmmaker, cinematographer Anna Franquesa Solano stated that the references for the film included Force Majeure and Still Walking
- However, she added that her main source of inspiration came from “spending time with Lulu’s family at their home in Changchun, during pre-production”
- The film had its premiere in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2019
- In January 2019, A24 acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film for $7 million
- Over Netflix, Amazon Studios, and Fox Searchlight
- It is scheduled to be released on July 12, 2019
- On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100%
- Based on 52 reviews
- With an average rating of 8.69/10
- The site’s critics’ consensus reads: “The Farewell deftly captures complicated family dynamics with a poignant, well-acted drama that marries cultural specificity with universally relatable themes”
- On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews
- The film has a weighted average score of 88 out of 100
- Based on 15 critics
- Indicating “universal acclaim”
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