French Thriller
FAREWELL
WHEN: Monday, June 17 at 7:30 PM*
WHERE: Eric Brown Theater, Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly
TICKETS: $5.00
For further information please call Inbal Israeli at 201.401.1493
Harold Chapler’s popular JCC film discussion series Top Films of the Decade will conclude its spring series with a screening of Farewell, a multiple-award-winning French thriller directed by Academy-award nominated filmmaker, Christian Carion. The story is based on an espionage case that Ronald Reagan described as the most fascinating of the 20th century.
Filmed in 2009, it features two leading European filmmakers as well as John Wayne, William Dafoe, James Stewart and Deane Kruger. It is as morally complex as a John LeCarre novel, featuring illuminating events that hastened the downfall of the Soviet Union. Carion based the film on the real-life, K.G.B. colonel, Vladimir Vetrov, whose code name, given to him by the French intelligence service, was Farewell. As it takes a middle ground between serious comedy and high-tech fantasy, it somehow deglamorizes spying as an occupation, reminding us that spies are real people leading everyday existences.
*Mr. Chapler will give background information before the screening and will engage the audience in a short discussion afterward.
