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Farewell
Directed by
Christian Carion
Not Rated
2009
1h 53m
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6.9
85%
75%
6.5
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The French intelligence service alerts the U.S. about a Soviet spy operation during the height of the Cold War, which sets off an unfortunate chain of events.
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Cast of Farewell
Guillaume Canet
Pierre Froment
Emir Kusturica
Sergei Grigoriev
Alexandra Maria Lara
Jessica Froment
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Natasha
Dina Korzun
Alina
Evgeniy Kharlanov
Igor
Niels Arestrup
Vallier
Willem Dafoe
Feeney
Fred Ward
Ronald Reagan
Philippe Magnan
François Mitterrand
David Soul
Hutton
Christian Sandström
FBI Agent
Diane Kruger
Jogging spy
Christian Carion
Mitterrand advisor / Director / Writer
Gary Lewis
Scottish chemist
Benno Fürmann
Riko Eklundh
Agent du FBI 1
Svetlana Kuzmina
Eric Raynaud
Writer
Philip Boëffard
Producer
Farewell Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
In the high-noon finale, the personal and the political have an effectively tense showdown, with the double-crosses and getaways we expect from a good espionage flick.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
If taken merely as a vaguely historical spy thriller, Farewell is a dandy tale.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A smart and suspenseful thriller, but one that's grounded in the reality of the world we all live in -- whether we're spies or engineers.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Carion might have found a more artful way to dramatize the case's geopolitical impact, but this is still pretty interesting stuff.
Dallas Morning News
David Hines
This cool, understated French thriller might just become one of the best film-based excuses to escape the swelter of summer.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The film, based on a true story, is an uneasy mix of generic spy thriller and tensions-at-home family drama, but it's definitely entertaining...
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Beware the thriller whose characters are more naive than the audience.
Washington Post
Rachel Saslow
There's a reason nobody made a movie about the 1983 bust of Soviet spies with the code name "Farewell" until now: It's too bloody complicated.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Farewell has something you don't see very often: an endorsement blurb from Ronald Reagan himself...
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
More than most espionage movies, the film is about relationships, the men with each other, the men with their own disapproving wives, and governments with each other.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
Though there's a lot of ricocheting dialogue about Grigoriev's penchant for keeping secrets and telling lies within the household, Carion effectively maps the emotional minefield that stands between radical patriotism and family harmony.
Chicago Sun-Times
Jim Emerson
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."
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
An ideal corrective to the usual overblown espionage fantasies, and one that works very well on its own stealthy terms.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
[A] smart, low-key, melancholy dramatization based on a little-known real moment in espionage, circa 1981...
The New Yorker
David Denby
The movie is stunningly intelligent; the concluding passages, in which the game abruptly ends for both men, are frightening and, finally, very moving.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Ward plays Reagan as not just engaged but swaggering and overexcitable -- a fun revisionist performance. But this is Kusturica's movie.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
A refreshing reminder in the age of the Bourne movies that spies are real people leading everyday lives.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Starts slowly but picks up steam as it goes along. The final half-hour is suspenseful to the max.
Los Angeles Times
Glenn Whipp
For the majority of its leisurely running time, Christian Caron's twisty thriller sports a smart sophistication along with an amazing story that's all the more remarkable for its relative anonymity in history books.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
Mr. Kusturica, whose own best directing days may be behind him, nevertheless gives a terrific portrayal of a man living inside his head and his history...
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