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Farewell, The

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Movie Info
Genre(s): Foreign
Written by: Klaus Pohl
Directed by: Jan Schütte
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 16, 2002
DVD: July 19, 2005
Running Time: 91 minutes, Color
Origin: Germany / Poland
Language(s): German (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Josef Bierbichler, Monika Bleibtreu, Jeanette Hain, Elfriede Irrall, Margit Rogall, Samuel Fintzi, Rena Zednikova, and Birgit Minichmayr
A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family. (Film Forum)
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New York Post V.A. Musetto
Full of fine performances, led by Josef Bierbichler as Brecht and Monica Bleibtreu as Helene Weigel, his wife. Taken on its own terms, The Farewell makes for rewarding viewing.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Edward Klosinski's staid cinematography lends the film a feeling of late summer languor, a deceptive calm before a terrible storm. The spare, evocative piano soundtrack is by John Cale.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Leslie Camhi
Marvelously grizzled and tender, Josef Bierbichler's Brecht wheezes and grumbles through it all.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
As a sketch of the twilight of a great artist, The Farewell has merit, but the sketch would be better used as the background to a mural.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
A sad, almost morbid -- and cinematically inert -- eulogy to a complex man whose own genius was dampened by arrogance and politics.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Extremely well acted. But as frequently as The Farewell touches on politics, it is essentially an excoriating (and sometimes grimly amusing) domestic drama of a latter-day king and his concubines.
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