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The Farewell
Directed by Lulu Wang
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time. From TMDB
53 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Sep 14, 2026 · last updated Oct 18, 2026 · How this works
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The Farewell is a 2019 comedy drama film, directed by Lulu Wang, starring Awkwafina, Zhao Shuzhen and Hong Lu.
- 44 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon
- posts span Aug 13, 2019 to Sep 14, 2026
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53 of 53 · most liked firstCheck out the sick new poster that was just released for the #KamenRiderZEZTZ: The Farewell Mission movie from the W-Hero Summer 2026 movie double-bill! It hits Japanese cinemas together with the Gavan Infinity movie on July 24th, 2026!
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Going to try to suggest one movie or tv show here each day if I can remember. We will begin with The Farewell, this gorgeous film by Lulu Wang feature a very special performance by Awkwafina. youtu.be/RofpAjqwMa8?...
neutral · AI labelView post →The full official trailer has been released for the W-Hero Summer 2026 movie double-bill! "Super Space Sheriff #GavanInfinity: The Day the Sun Cried" and "#KamenRiderZEZTZ: The Farewell Mission" hit Japanese cinemas together on July 24th, 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ys...
neutral · AI labelView post →#scriptsky Brits, Lulu Wang's excellent family comedy THE FAREWELL is just about to start on Film 4...
neutral · AI labelView post →July's Film Club selection is "The Farewell." 🎞️ Directed by Lulu Wang, this beloved Festival favorite premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Join us all month as we revisit a story that finds humor, heartbreak, and love in the complexities of family.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 24 - Asian American Movie The Farewell (2019) Lulu Wang --An Asian American woman travels to China on the presumption that her grandmother will soon pass. An extremely charming film!
positive · AI labelView post →We’re kicking off Film Club with Lulu Wang’s "The Farewell.” Join writer, producer, and programmer Kiva Reardon ("Sorry, Baby") for a free live discussion on July 21 at 1:00 p.m. PT featuring scene breakdowns, narrative analysis, and audience Q&A. Register: sndnc.org/4vcfyCm
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2026FilmChallenge Day 28 - Movie Set in China The Farewell (2019) Lulu Wang A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark. --Such a charming film with fantastic performances!
positive · AI labelView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky Day 8 - Asian American in a Movie The Farewell (2019) Lulu Wang -A Chinese-American family travels to China under the pretense of a fake wedding, thinking that the mother/grandmother has cancer. Such a charming film and beautiful performance by Awkwafina!
positive · AI labelView post →Join us next week for the first-ever Film Club event. 🎞️ This month’s pick is “The Farewell.” Explore the film from script to screen with Sundance Collab and host Kiva Reardon on July 21 at 1:00 p.m. PT. Register for free: sndnc.org/4vcfyCm
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2025FilmChallenge / #Bales2025MovieChallenge #FilmSky May 18 – A family gathering 🎞️ THE FAREWELL 📋 letterboxd.com/film/the-far...
neutral · AI labelView post →Now Watching: The Farewell I feel like this movie doesn’t get talked about much anymore and that’s a shame because I honestly think that this movie is so good and that the premise of the movie gives each scene different layers of hidden emotions. #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Watching another movie today (The Farewell) which may or may not be legal
neutral · AI labelView post →Cher rekeased the remastered soundtrack for the Farewell Tour 2003 movie she put out (tour was filmed in 2002 lmaoooo) and thats honestly the best christmas gift I could have been given, i watched this truly millions of times as a kid and it was PEAK cher
neutral · AI labelView post →Most notably, I left off my favorite movie tied with The Farewell (Wreck-It Ralph), but I tried to think of the best of the best at what movies can do, and this is where I landed
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently watching The Farewell, a slow moving indie movie where nothing much happens, other than normal life events & very normal conversations. Probably boring to a lot of people, but there’s a discernibly comforting vibe that I’m drawn to. I’m not sure what the genre is…slow indie? #thefarewell
positive · AI labelView post →My “why are you crying? It’s just a movie” 4-pack: - Dead Poets Society - Grave of the Fireflies - Inside Out - The Farewell
neutral · AI labelView post →1/ Should anyone be interested: No, I have not read the "Expats" book or watched the "Expats" series, nor I do I intend to. And for the record: I did not like Lulu Wang's "The Farewell". I guess that that film came out in 2019 and I viewed it in Hong Kong that year...
negative · AI labelView post →Happy Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month! Chelsea and Wade discuss the 2019 movie “The Farewell” starring Awkwafina. 🎧Listen now on wherever you get your podcasts!
neutral · AI labelView post →I felt this way when the Academy chose to ignore the existence of The Farewell (despite it being the year's best-reviewed film) in 2019. A very different kind of movie from No Other Choice, but still...
positive · AI labelView post →I almost wish my fellow caucasoid Christians had latched onto Cohen’s Come Healing after the release of The Farewell (great film,) because while they would’ve completely missed the subtext, at least there was potential to address some unresolved trauma and grief
positive · AI labelView post →Here's how I imagine her conversation with her agent went when she was cast in The Farewell Agent: hey how do you feel about being in a film where half of the dialogue is going to be in Mandarin? Awkwafina: you know I don't speak Mandarin right? Agent: GOOD NEWS
neutral · AI labelView post →Makes me think of when the GREAT Awkwafina movie, "The Farewell" came out Personally, I give my dad hugs in part because he's my dad and I love him, but also because I know it makes him squirm if it lasts more than 0.5 seconds
neutral · AI labelView post →Thank you! It’s been on my list for ages, but this is pushing it forward. (Song of the Sea is so beautiful it broke my heart. The Farewell is INCREDIBLE and so underrated. AND Ikiru is a film I think literally everyone should see.)
positive · AI labelView post →I finally worked up the emotional readiness to watch The Farewell and wow, what an amazing amazing movie. Don't mind me, just sobbing on my flight home
positive · AI labelView post →Not surprised that I started feeling tired exactly at the point where I left off the last time I tried to watch The Farewell. The performances in this movie are charming as hell, but I think I'm too dumb for subtitles any more. Or, maybe I should just watch movies before midnight.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally saw PAST LIVES. The world-straddling and feeling like you're "too much" in one culture and "not enough" in the other, spoke to me in a way no film has since THE FAREWELL. But it was its universal story about life as a balance between fate and self-determination that left me blubbering.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Farewell was physically painful to look at her and yet an outstanding movie
positive · AI labelView post →I am slowly chipping away at some writing. In the meantime at my Patreon, I republished my old essay about the film THE FAREWELL and older relatives;
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Comedy Movies Released on July 12! What's your fave? 1. The Farewell 2. Descendants: The Rise of Red 3. Fly Me to the Moon 4. Stuber Check out all 125 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Comedy
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm on a mission to watch my entire #Letterboxd watchlist from the oldest onwards 🎬 The first in my challenge was The Farewell, a beautiful film on anticipatory grief and family Read my review on Closely Watched Films 👇 #filmsky #movieblog #filmreview closelywatchedfilms.com/2026/05/12/t...
positive · AI labelView post →The (movie) The Farewell 4K (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 7.9 Cast: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Shuzhen Zhao, Hong Lu, Yongbo Jiang
neutral · AI labelView post →Listen to a new episode of ‘Witness Aging’! This episode examines aging and dementia through the film: The Farewell (2019). Listen to the host Dr. Roya Liu and guest Manaka Matsumoto discuss the film! 🎬 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7ogI...
neutral · AI labelView post →I might have to say The Farewell because of that final reveal! I was fucking furious, even though I had liked the movie up until that moment. Anomalisa also made me angry but with The Farewell, it was personal.
negative · AI labelView post →The Farewell (2019) Directed by Lulu Wang Lulu Wang's The Farewell begins with a title card: "Based on an actual lie." The lie in question is both simple and profound: when Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen) is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, her family decides not to tell her. Instead, they stage a wedding as an excuse to gather from around the world to say goodbye without her knowing it's goodbye. Billi (Awkwafina), raised in America, struggles with the deception, caught between her Western…
positive · AI labelView post →The (movie) The Farewell 4K (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 7.9 Cast: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Shuzhen Zhao, Hong Lu, Yongbo Jiang
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #PoorThings #TheFarewell The 10 Greatest Movie Performances of the 21st Century That Perfectly Blend Comedy With Drama http://dlvr.it/TPJF7g
neutral · AI labelView post →198. The Farewell (2019) I am the target audience for this movie but I think it fucked up what it was going for, it felt too clean and standard so it loses a lot of the intended emotional effect, and the ending left a really poor impression on me, I'm very disappointed! 4/10
negative · AI labelView post →The (movie) Eagles: The Farewell Tour - Live from Melbourne (HD/HDX) (SD) is available today on (Vudu) (US) for $5 Cast: Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh, Steuart Smith Genre: (Music)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Farewell (2019) This film tells the story of a Chinese family who discovers that their grandmother has a terminal illness.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just the thought of Nai Nai dying throughout this entire movie... 😭 "The Farewell" 2019
positive · AI labelView post →still unfinished film, “The Farewell Gaze.” During its production, the lead actor and Miguel’s close friend, Julio Arenas, disappeared without a trace, leaving in his wake a mystery that would haunt the lives of everyone associated with the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I really gotta check that game out sometime. Unfortunately, I haven’t upgraded my PC yet so I can’t really play it. For me, it was a film called “The Farewell”. I recently rewatched it and it still really makes me cry and really question whether they did the right thing or not towards the end.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched The Farewell (streaming on Max) with my students last night. A beautiful film about China, family, and identity. Strong recommend.
positive · AI labelView post →13 minutes into The Farewell and I already love the characters in this movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Today - Postwar Japanese drama LOVE LETTER + Sunday Noir selects WHEN MORNING COMES at Paradise, Sirk melodrama INTERLUDE + Lunar New Year celebration w/ THE FAREWELL at Lightbox, TITANIC + tea & scones at Fox, more! Rundown: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep
neutral · AI labelView post →Have to skip out of the Farewell My Concubine repertoire showing this weekend at the film festival. Train schedule is pretty bad that day. Guess I'll do other current releases that day instead.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Farewell takes Movie Cancer to previously unheard-of levels of fantasy. Compared to this, The Bucket List is a documentary. #TheFarewell #MovieReview #comedy #Drama #Dramedy https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/the-farewell/
negative · AI labelView post →Jan 21: Main Character is a Grandma #Bales2023FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 @bales1181 #TheFarewell (2019) Billi travels to China 🇨🇳 to say goodbye to her dying grandma, Nai Nai. #Awkwafina #ZhaoShuzhen
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie is described as a comedy-drama and it is. But I didn’t have many laugh out loud moments. The humor is situational mainly: the writers work up to those moments that make you smile, either because you remember a similar moment in your life, or else because you can’t imagine a similar moment. As happens so often, the story is based on real events. I saw where one review title said it is heartbreaking, but I didn’t see that at all. The movie is fairly uplifting in that it shows the…
positive · AI labelView post →If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog @ https://www.msbreviews.com Lulu Wang shares an emotional part of her personal life by delivering a beautiful, heartfelt story about her grandmother. Even though The Farewell sticks the landing perfectly, not all of the second act’s storylines captivated me, especially the whole wedding narrative. However, Awkwafina offers a fantastic performance, as well as the rest of the cast. Alex Weston’s score elevates a lot of moments,…
positive · AI labelView post →When a Chinese family finds out that the family’s matriarch is dying of lung cancer, complications arise. In Chinese culture, there is a saying that when you get cancer, you die. This actually boils down to the belief that it’s not the cancer that leads to the person’s death, but rather the fear of dying. As such, the family orchestrates an elaborate ruse to get everyone together for a wedding, but in reality the gathering is for everyone to be able to say goodbye to the grandmother without…
positive · AI labelView post →And now some context #TheFarewell spoiler: I loved it! Even better than I expected. Stop telling your family everything’s fine and go see a movie together 👌🏻
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