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Director: Christian Carion. With Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, David Soul, Fred Ward, Willem Dafoe
FRENCH FILMS feature prominently this season, but each one has offered something different. Farewell, set during the early 1980s, is a true-to-life political thriller – the film’s title was the codename of a KGB officer passing information to the west. It makes a splendid job of telling a fascinating story, skilfully integrating key players from base level spies up to Reagan (a standout Fred Ward), Gorbachev and Mitterand
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