The writer-director of the film talks about familial responsibility and what food means to Chinese grandmothers
The runaway hit of this year's Sundance Film Festival, The Farewell, is not based on a true story, per se, but actually a true lie. In the film, Billi, played by Awkwafina in her best role to date, travels to China to visit her grandmother Nai Nai who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The catch? Her grandmother has no idea she's dying—and her family is keeping it that way.
Awkwafina Explains Why 'The Farewell' Made Her An"Emotional Wreck" "I would come home and call my grandma crying every night"I always knew in the writing process that that was the tone I was going for. It's often difficult to capture that on the page because it isn't slapstick, and it isn't in the dialogue. So much of it is found in the framing and two different things going on at the same time.
Whereas in America, we had a lot more moving cameras, so it felt more fluid and organic. We really exaggerated the use of wider aspect ratio in China because we could fill the entire frame with family. Wide-aspect ratio is usually used for landscapes and outdoors, but we decided to use it to portray the landscape of the family. Then when you take the family away and you have Billi alone in the frame, you really feel her isolation in China.
The film's location is actually my grandma's real hometown in Changchun in northern China. It's what most of China looks like that isn't super Westernized, the way that Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong are.We specifically decided not to shoot food on its own. We wanted to avoid food porn of any kind, and we wanted the food to feel organic in a scene. People are always eating because that's just what they do, but we also wanted to use food as a source of tension.
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