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Information
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 118 min.
- Director
- Hal Hartley
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Thriller
- Rating *
- 6.3
- Votes *
- 3,796
- Checks
- 263
- Favs
- 14
- Dislikes
- 10
- Favs/checks
- 5.3% (1:19)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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ucuruju
Sad that this misfire is the sequel to one of the best movies ever made. Second half gets really unbearable with its nonsense plotting and espionage mumbo jumbo. Disappointing. 4 months 1 week ago -
Siskoid
A sequel to Harry Fool - which I have not seen, but don't think it matters a jot - Hal Hartley's Fay Grim is a send-up of spy and conspiracy pictures, taking Parker Posey's titular character on a global adventure in Hartley's literally askew universe where everything and everyone might be part of an obscure plot to retrieve code books written by her presumably dead husband. Helping her are her son expelled from school, her star poet brother (this whole element had me laughing out loud), and his publisher who are more or less playing a riff on the Da Vinci Code. In the spy sphere, many more characters with disparate allegiances, including a less-than-trustworthy CIA agent played by Jeff Goldbloom. It's a lot of fun. I look forward to seeing Harry Fool some time just to recontextualize the characters, though I hear they are in such different genres/modes, they might as well be occurring in separate universes. 11 months 3 weeks ago -
Eduardo Nasi
The sequel of Henry Fool could only be radically different from the first one, and it indeed is.
Truly, it is almost the opposite.
Instead of an American town, we have a global thriller. The poetry of the Confessions becomes a spy code. There are FBI agents and terrorists instead of guys from the neighborhood.
Nice Hal Hartley movie. 12 years 9 months ago