{"id":4056,"date":"2022-07-09T14:03:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T13:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=4056"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:53:07","slug":"the-farewell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/the-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/06-TheFarewell-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"Still from The Farewell\" class=\"wp-image-4058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/06-TheFarewell-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/06-TheFarewell-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/06-TheFarewell.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div id=\"eventPage\">\n         <!--<h2><\/h2>--><p class=\"archiveTitle\">Friday, 10 February 2023: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/the-farewell\/\" target=\"_self\">The Farewell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"timeDate\">Friday, 10 February 2023, 20:00<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"venue\"><strong>Venue<\/strong>:  (see <a href=\"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/location-and-tickets\/\">Locations and Tickets<\/a> for further details)<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"strand\"><strong>Programme category<\/strong>: Forest Row Film Society<\/p>\r\n\r\n         <p>Director: Lulu Wang, USA 2019, 100 mins, PG<\/p>\n         <blockquote>\n            <div>&quot;The entire film is pretty perfect, actually, and it\u2019s one of the year\u2019s best.&quot; <i>RogerEbert.com<\/i><\/div>\n         <\/blockquote>\n         <p>A Chinese family in New York discovers their grandmother, who is still in China, has only a short while to live. According to custom they keep her diagnosis secret from her, but arrange a family reunion under pretext of a wedding so they can see her one last time.<\/p>\n         <blockquote>\n            <div>&quot;One of the most genuinely moving films I&#8217;ve ever seen&quot; <i>Rolling Stone<\/i><\/div>\n         <\/blockquote>\n         <h4>Further reading<\/h4>\n         <ol>\n            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/the-farewell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Out<\/a><\/li>\n            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/the-farewell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empire<\/a><\/li>\n            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/sep\/21\/the-farewell-review-lulu-wang-awkwafina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Observer<\/a><\/li>\n            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyeforfilm.co.uk\/review\/the-farewell-2019-film-review-by-owen-van-spall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eye For Film<\/a><\/li>\n            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/jan\/31\/the-farewell-review-awkwafina-sundance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n         <\/ol>\n         <h4>Trailer<\/h4><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" width=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RofpAjqwMa8?rel=0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director: Lulu Wang, USA 2019, 100 mins, PG &quot;The entire film is pretty perfect, actually, and it\u2019s one of the year\u2019s best.&quot; RogerEbert.com A Chinese&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4058,"parent":703,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4056\/revisions\/4157"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}