You'll notice that the two main characters are played by film directors, and director Carion has a good time playing in the territories where the movies and life intersect, whether it's President Reagan ( Fred Ward) obsessing over the shift in perspective (from James Stewart to John Wayne) at the end of John Ford's “ The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” or Gregoriev watching 8mm family home movies projected into the corner of the ceiling, so that they appear as if on the inside of a cube. “Farewell” weaves together the story of their largely improvised covert operation, the emotional effects of the secrets these men keep from their wives and families, and the political implications of their revelations at the highest levels of government - in France, the Soviet Union and the United States. After all, as a complete amateur, he is such an unlikely spy that he is virtually above suspicion. Gregoriev enlists the reluctant Pierre Froment (played by Guillaume Canet, director of the exceptional thriller “ Tell No One”), a French businessman living with his family in Moscow, to smuggle high-level intelligence out of the country. He's secretly hoping to bring about a better life for his typically sullen teenage son Igor, who's obsessed with cassettes of “decadent Western music” like Queen and David Bowie, and is as disillusioned with Brezhnev as he is with his dad. “To survive, this country must change,” he insists. To reveal much about the plot would be giving away classified information, but (For Your Eyes Only - Burn After Reading) it begins in 1981 and involves the efforts of Sergei Gregoriev (played by the extraordinary Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica, who directed the Cannes Film Festival winners “When Father Was Away on Business” and “Underground”) to undermine his country's failed communist system for personal as well as patriotic reasons. But “Farewell” (that was the French intelligence service code name for the Soviet leaker) has something you don't see very often: an endorsement blurb from Ronald Reagan himself, who called this real-life affair “one of the most important espionage cases of the 20th century.” Boardgamegeek.Both films have their preposterous elements - like President Reagan's proposed “Star Wars” missile defense system, presented in Carion's film as a cleverly outlandish strategic bluff.Game of the Week Calendar Related Sites & Subreddits The simplest use is to bold game names in your comment and add " /u/r2d8 getinfo" at the end of the post, but this post/sub has other features identified. You'll see people using bold to highlight games, that gives the opportunity to interact with /u/r2d8, a bot that can be used to grab data from BGG on games included in a post. Please see the Rules-page for a full list of the rules. Join our community! Come discuss games like Codenames, Arkham Horror, Terra Mystica, and all your other favorite games! Rules Welcome to /r/boardgames! The #1 reddit source for news, information, and discussion about modern board games. Join us on IRC or via your preferred IRC platform via libera.chat #boardgames. If you're looking to schedule an AMA, set-up a live event post, or collaborate with us in any way, reach out via modmail! New user on the sub? Please make sure you read our rules below and check out our Contribution Guides since we have additional rules regarding specific topics. Flair icons are BoardGameGeek microbadges and are used with permission.
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