Another good French film

[skizzerflake]

Farewell - The flick I meant to see last week when I ended up at the hilarious Mic Macs was Farewell. This is the story (somewhat fact based) of a French diplomatic employee in Moscow, early 80's, who unwittingly became the conduit for super-high-value intelligence passed on by a disillusioned KGB chief, which made its way to Mitterand and hence to Reagan and became the information that allowed the US to more or less win the Cold War. This film is extremely lo-tech and even though you know from the beginning how it turns out, very tense. The low point might be Fred Ward as Ronald Reagan, but this appears to mainly a metaphor for how Europe viewed Reagan. This is a definitely recommended political thriller. It's partially subtitled, being about even thirds in French, Russian and English.

 

[jostenmeat]

Sounds interesting! Lemme know when it comes out on BD.

I like spy thrillers. I think the most tense of these types of movies I've seen in recent years has got to be Breach. It was a lot more tense than The Good Shepherd, for instance.

I see that Emir Kusturica is playing the lead role, how interesting! Have you seen his movies? I've seen at least Underground and Black Cat, White Cat. His movies are pretty nuts and unique.

 

[skizzerflake]

Sounds interesting! Lemme know when it comes out on BD.

I like spy thrillers. I think the most tense of these types of movies I've seen in recent years has got to be Breach. It was a lot more tense than The Good Shepherd, for instance.

I see that Emir Kusturica is playing the lead role, how interesting! Have you seen his movies? I've seen at least Underground and Black Cat, White Cat. His movies are pretty nuts and unique.

I have not seen any of his previous movies, but he was excellent as the KGB guy in Farewell and I see on IMDB that he has a couple English language movies in the pipeline. He reminded me of John C Riley in that he's sort of a klutz who manages to convey a lot. Farewell is similar to Breach as a tense spy movie with little in the way of amazing technology or crazy action sequences.

 

[xego]

as for French films recently I enjoyed "Le Samurai" really good film in the hit man genre. Also "Bob le Flambeur" aka "Bob the Gambler", and "Rififi" which was also very good. I saw on IMDB that Pacino is attached to a remake of this one.