SummaryIn 1981, Colonel Grigoriev of the KGB (real name - Vladimir Vetrov), disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev, decides he is going to change the world. Discreetly, he makes contact with a French engineer working for Thomson in Moscow and little by little passes on documents to him - mainly concerning the United States ... Read More
Directed By:Christian Carion
Written By:Eric Raynaud, Christian Carion, Sergey Kostin
Farewell
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The movie is stunningly intelligent; the concluding passages, in which the game abruptly ends for both men, are frightening and, finally, very moving.
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That's another thing about Carion's direction: He has an eye for unusual, atmospheric touches -- the kinds of striking little things you notice in the world and think: "Somebody should put that in a movie."
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Director Christian Carion (Merry Christmas) establishes a low-key yet threatening atmosphere right from the start, and gets terrific performances from Kusturica and Canet.
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Farewell is a solid telling of an obscure story and nothing more. The most effective scenes aren't cloak and dagger stuff but passages like Igor daydreaming of becoming a rock star like his idol Freddie Mercury of Queen.
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Farewell offers intrigue, simmering tension.
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As a political thriller, Christian Carion's Farewell is fairly feeble, rendering some of the oldest clichés of Cold War potboilers without much urgency or stylistic flair.
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A homely bit of international Cold War cloak-and-dagger, starring badly dressed bureaucrats instead of chic spies, Farewell is based on a vital early-'80s espionage break involving the KGB, DST French intelligence, and the CIA.
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Mar 27, 2012
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En voyant ce film, je pense que certains buteront aussitôt sur la lenteur de ce film, impression causÃe notamment pas un manque flagrant de mise en scène marquante. De plus, il est Ãtonnant de voir un quelconque humour qui semble s'être infiltrà dans les passages politiques (sÃquences avec les prÃsidents amÃricain et français). Mais malgrà cela, L'Affaire Farewell reste un bon film. D'une part grâce à son casting, de bonne facture (surtout de la part d'Emir Kusturica), à son scÃnario qui s'intÃresse bien plus au parallèle entre les actions de ces deux hommes et de leur vie de famille, et à sa bande-son, qui apporte beaucoup de puissance à certaines scènes alors que les musiques sont pourtant calmes et douces. Bref, L'Affaire Farewell est l'un de ces films qui se laissent regarder avec beaucoup de plaisir.
Production Company:
- Nord-Ouest Films
- Le Bureau
- Pathé
- Canal+
- France 2 Cinéma
- CinéCinéma
- La Région Île-de-France
- Une Hirondelle Productions
- Cofinova 5
- France 2 (FR2)
- Blackfeet Pictures
Release Date:Jul 23, 2010
Duration:1 h 53 m
Tagline:Secrets have the power to change the course of history.
