Fay Grim

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Alain E @AlainE Jun 3, 2026 Unfortunately quite grim and improbable. In the first scene Fay enters a Catholic church and has a conversation with the priest. She takes out a cigarette and the priest lights it up with his lighter, at the pews! At some point the CIA also enters the picture (later, not in the church). After twenty minutes I realized that I was wasting my time. The very first scenes with freeze frame had looked promising. On Prime. See more Brian K @CrazyLegs Dec 22, 2025 This plays like a David Mamet movie but without the wit of David Mamet. The language is convoluted and stilted and artificial, but sometimes humorous. Posey Parker is the glue that keeps it from flying off into space. The plot is so complicated that it becomes irrelevant. It seems like a stage play that has escaped the theater. The director is so bad at the infrequent action scenes that they just skip them completely and show still frames instead so you get the idea of what was supposed to have happened - and that's about the funniest thing in the movie. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone See more Kalissa H. @kali_416 Nov 10, 2025 Parker Posey is the best part of the movie. See more Aug 28, 2016 A sendup of sorts of paranoid espionage thrillers plays it straight with a manic energy and more convoluted twists than you can shake a stick at. FIlmed almost exclusively in so many dutch angles it could make Battlefield Earth blush. It is worth the watch for the performances of Parker Posey and Jeff Goldblum, obviously having fun. But the lack of any real substance and no through-line strong enough through all the twists to really feel like it matters. See more Dec 17, 2015 "Henry Fool" was a strange indie dramedy about a weirdo writer who came into the life of a garbage man and inspired him to also become a weirdo writer. Writer/Director Hal Hartley revisits the characters created in that film 10 years later in "Fay Grim" and, to make things even stranger, turns it all into an international spy thriller. It is one of the strangest things, and I kind of loved it for that. The movie is a tad confusing and not without it's problems, but it is so unique and strange, and so unlike it's preceding film that it becomes something entirely different...it just happens to be inhabited with these quirky odd characters we've met in an entirely different kind of film before. See more Nov 10, 2015 starring the queen of indie cinema Parker Posey + director hal hartly= good viewing See more Read all reviews

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