Artist Farewell
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Josh Hofer
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Farewell
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. Based on a real-life espionage case that some say changed history, Farewell features plenty of whispered exchanges of information on park benches and in darkened automobiles, and plenty of scenes of world leaders (including Fred Ward as Ronald Reagan) making stilted pronouncements about the will of the people and the proper exercise of power. But between all that, Farewell heightens the melodrama by delving into the personal lives of a rogue KGB agent played by Emir Kusturica and a reluctant French spy played by Guillaume Canet, documenting their respective marital spats and furtive affairs.
Updated 01/24/2012
