The Farewell's Lulu Wang is OK whether you laugh or cry at her film

With her new dramedy The Farewell, writer-director Lulu Wang explores a variety of contradictions in the story of how her family decided to keep her grandmother's terminal cancer diagnosis from the matriarch herself.
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