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Zhao Shuzhen

The Farewell

Review: The Farewell Thoughtfully Braids the Somber and the Absurd

by Pat Brown
July 12, 2019

The film taps into universal truths about the passage of time, the inevitability of loss, and how we prepare one another for it.

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