0 david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review July 11, 2019 by · Published July 11, 2019 · Last modified July 14, 2019 The Farewell: An Old Friend, by David Bax In the opening scene of Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, Billi (Awkwafina) walks down a New York City street while chatting boisterously on the phone in Mandarin with her grandmother, Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen). Momentarily, she stops to exchange a few...