Farewell: DVD Review
Farewell
Rating: M
Released by Roadshow
It's back to the 1980s for this espionage thriller set in events which led to
the fall of the Soviet Bloc.
As it opens on a
white landscape filled with snow, a lone wolf watches troops head off into a
truck - and from there, the action flicks from the cold wastelands to the
decadent west of the 1980s France.
Guillaume Canet
is Pierre Froment, an engineer who's caught up in the world of espionage and
trading secrets to the Soviets. But soon, this relatively naïve spy is making
big waves in the world and powers higher up are wondering where the leaks are
coming from.
And as the web is more deeply woven,
both Reagan (Fred Ward) and Gorbachev, as well as President Mitterand find
themselves in the line of suspicion as a cat and mouse game develops between
intelligence agencies.
Farewell is a globe
trotting complex and deeply rich film - it starts off slowly and builds towards
the end. There's an authenticity to the film which is there from the beginning -
and Fred Ward impresses as Reagan.
While it's
intelligent and engrossing film making, it does at times teeter on the slightly
slow side as it follows its story from beginning to end. That's not to say it's
not captivating - it just takes a little time to suck you in.
Rating: 7/10
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