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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)

What The Critics Said

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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.

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70

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.

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70

Village Voice Leslie Camhi

Marvelously grizzled and tender, Josef Bierbichler's Brecht wheezes and grumbles through it all.

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60

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.

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50

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.

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50

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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