The best movies streaming on Amazon Prime include Dazed and Confused, Super 8, The Virgin Suicides, Rocketman, Little Women, and many more. We list the 100 best films on the streaming service. The Farewell (2019) on Amazon Prime by Lulu Wang Movie Review agoodmovietowatch The Farewell 2019 / Awkwafina shines in this complex culture clash comedy. New on Amazon Prime Video in March 2020: Making the Cut, Zerozerozero, and The Farewell Agatha Christie fans will be pleased Keisha Hatchett March 9, 2020, 12:42 p.m.
Many things clash in this beautifully layered, semi-autobiographical film of American director Lulu Wang: cultures, morals, and emotions. The result is a type of comedy that is complex and bittersweet—and based on a true lie: this is the story of a Chinese grandma whose family won't tell her that she is fatally ill. Instead, they organize a fake wedding in China, where everyone gets together to bid a farewell to the unwitting matriarch (played by Zhao Shuzhen). The fake wedding is, in fact, a premature funeral for a person unaware that she is going to die. Played by rapper and comedian Awkwafina, Billi, a New-York-based Chinese-American with a complicated relationship to China, embodies the cultural and moral question at the heart of this story: is it right or wrong not tell grandma? It is thanks to Wang's deft writing and Awkwafina's outstanding performance that The Farewell homes in on answers without ever being melodramatic. Warm, honest, and beautiful.
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