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July 12, 2019
At the Movies: A bittersweet family story in ‘The Farewell'
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
A family returns to China under the guise of a fake wedding to stealthily say goodbye to their beloved matriarch — the only person that doesn't know she only has a few weeks to live.
The premise behind writer and director Lulu Wang's wonderful film “The Farewell “ might be a little hard to accept for some audiences. A family collectively decides not to tell their grandmother that she has been diagnosed with lung cancer and has only three months to live. But wanting a chance to say goodbye, they arrange an elaborate ruse — a wedding — to get everyone together one last time.
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