
A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is information that could compromises the security of the U.S., causing Fay to first head to Paris to fetch them ...... (Full plot summary below)
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A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is information that could compromises the security of the U.S., causing Fay to first head to Paris to fetch them ...
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| Palo Alto WeeklyJeanne AufmuthFacetious and acutely stagy to the point of preposterous. |
| Slant MagazineJason ClarkHartley miraculously manages to make a grandly entertaining (and relevant) movie that never seems as if it's being too cloying. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsFay Grim is less concerned with the details of contemporary spy-craft and global deception than with broader moral questions. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisThe nicest surprise of the movie is how long and how well Fay Grim works as a contemporary screwball comedy, a genre from which Hartley's diffuse yet severe sense of irony would seem to disbar him. |
| ReelerMichelle OrangeHartley has chosen the hallmark of a great remake -- reinvention -- in approaching the concept of the sequel, for better and for worse. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyHartley's 1997 allegory about art and celebrity "Henry Fool," which divided critics and never found an audience, gets a loose, uneven updating in this surreal espionage thriller that plays like John Le Carre recast as postmodern absurdist yarn. |
| Cinema SignalsJules BrennerA work that stylishly tilts satire and reality with a grand dose of classic Posey. |
| Orlando WeeklyJohn ThomasonThe story is deliberately perplexing, and while the logic of the serpentine narrative surely makes sense, Hartley is more concerned with the cadences and rhythms of the spy movie itself. |
| CinemaBlendBrian HolcombHartley pretzels his faux spy plot into "Syriana"-like knots and ends up with a fascinating if somewhat flawed absurdist romp. |
| Metromix.comMatt PaisStrikes a fine balance between the serious and the silly. |