Farewell: Movie Review
Farewell
Rating: 6/10
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Willem Dafoe, Fred
Ward, David Soul
Director: Christian Carion
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 - more the case
That said though, if you fancy spending some time reliving the 80s spy
paranoia, then this could be the film for you.
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