SUNDANCE 2019 REVIEW: Lulu Wang’s THE FAREWELL stars Awkwafina in a heartfelt and occasionally tear-stained comedy bridging the Chinese-American generational divide

SUNDANCE 2019 REVIEW: Lulu Wang’s THE FAREWELL stars Awkwafina in a heartfelt and occasionally tear-stained comedy bridging the Chinese-American generational divide

“Based on an actual lie.” That’s what we are told at the beginning of Lulu Wang’s THE FAREWELL. Starring Awkwafina as a young Chinese American woman struggling to pay rent, and kick start her career, the usual young artist’s early steps, pulls the devastating news out...