Farewell

Following Spy(ies) showed last year at COLCOA, Guillaume Canet seems to be the go-to guy when it comes to play reluctant amateur spies. In this tale based on a true story, he plays a French engineer who gets contacted by a Russian colonel (played by the filmmaker Emir Kusturica) to deliver secrets to the West. Avoiding melodrama and sensationalism, Farewell (Farewell review) offered the psychological portrait of two ordinary men fighting with their conscience for a greater good. Finely directed and captivating, from the beginning to the end, this film was reminiscent of these good old cold war movies.

Not being able to attend the screening for a Q&A, the director was replaced by the actor Fred Ward who plays Ronald Reagan in the film.