Opening Night: The Farewell
June 12, 2019 7:00pm
Directed by Lulu Wang | 2019
With Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin
Based, we are informed, “on an actual lie,” Lulu Wang’s wonderfully warm, bittersweet look at the intricacies of family dynamics features a bravura breakout performance from Awkwafina as a writer living in New York who travels back to her hometown in China for a wedding celebration. The lie? The wedding is really just a pretext for family members to say goodbye to their beloved grandmother who, as everyone but the old woman herself knows, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. What plays out is a by turns gently humorous and achingly tender reflection on home, heritage, and the ways in which family bonds can stretch across cultures, distance, and generations.
The opening night screening of The Farewell will take place across all four theaters at the BAM Rose Cinemas. Filmmaker Lulu Wang will introduce each screening.
GENERAL ADMISSION: Film: $30, Film + Party: $50
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Location
Peter Jay Sharp Building – BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11217 USA