Monday, August 19, 2019

Movie Review: The Farewell

It has been a ridiculously long time since Allison and I have seen a movie. There are a bunch we want to see, so I hope we have a better stretch in the fall than we did in the summer. BUT August is always a guaranteed movie because we both have a birthday in August, and we treat ourselves to a movie together. {grin}

We went to see The Farewell on Saturday at our local artsy theater. We had a different movie planned, that we hope to see soon, but we were running a little later, so we switched up at the last minute.


Plot: A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.

Review: Man was this a great film! It took a really tough subject and managed to make us laugh! I loved this family, and I especially loved the grandma, Nai Nai. She reminded me a lot of my own granny - super sassy and fun. I loved how there was a lot of heart to the story without being cheesy and just a lot of comedy gold. We both thought it was so, so good! I know I haven't seen many movies this year, but this is going to rank really highly for me.

4 comments:

Natasha said...

That one does sound really good! I don't know that I've actually seen any movies this year...

Anonymous said...

Great movie! Ready for our next one! Allison

Kathryn Bagley said...

Looks like a cute movie!

Emily said...

I’ve never heard of this movie prior to this post but it sounds adorable. The perfect feel good movie to watch when Adam isn’t around ha.