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Release Date: 2006 Cast: Parker Posey, Claudia Michelsen, Jasmin Tabatabai, Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Chuck Montgomery, Jeff Goldblum, Liam Aiken, Saffron Burrows, Leo Fitzpatrick, D.J. Mendel
Categories: Movies, Thriller, Indie, Action, Comedy Thriller, Comedy, Political thriller, Crime Thriller Fay Grim is a 2006 film written and directed by Hal Hartley. The film is a sequel to Hartley's 1997 film Henry Fool, and revolves around the title character, played by Parker Posey, the sister of Simon Grim (James Urbaniak). The plot revolves around Fay's attempt to unravel an increasingly violent mystery in Europe. The film was shot almost entirely in Dutch angles, meaning the vast majority of shots are framed diagonally, or "tilted." At the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, Hartley revealed that the two shots in the film's final cut that are not "Dutched" occurred when he and the film crew... MORE
Fay Grim is a 2006 film written and directed by Hal Hartley. The film is a sequel to Hartley's 1997 film Henry Fool, and revolves around the title character, played by Parker Posey, the sister of Simon Grim (James Urbaniak). The plot revolves around Fay's attempt to unravel an increasingly violent mystery in Europe. The film was shot almost entirely in Dutch angles, meaning the vast majority of shots are framed diagonally, or "tilted." At the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, Hartley revealed that the two shots in the film's final cut that are not "Dutched" occurred when he and the film crew forgot to tilt the camera.
It premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in theaters across America on May 18, 2007, with a DVD release the following Tuesday, May 22, in conjunction with Magnolia Pictures' "day-and-date" release strategy. The film won the "Audience Choice Award" at the RiverRun International Film Festival in 2007.
Seven years after the events of Henry Fool, Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Jeff Goldblum) to try to locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive husband (Thomas Jay Ryan). The notes contain information that could LESS
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