Fay Grim

Infobox Film
name = Fay Grim


caption = Promotional one-sheet
director = Hal Hartley
producer = Hal Hartley
Jason Kilot
Joana Vicente
writer = Hal Hartley
starring = Parker Posey
James Urbaniak
Liam Aiken
Jeff Goldblum
music = Hal Hartley
cinematography = Sarah Cawley
editing = Hal Hartley
distributor = Magnolia Pictures
released = January 19, 2007 (Sundance Film Festival)
May 18, 2007 (limited)
runtime = 118 min.
country = flagicon|United States
flagicon|Germany
language = English
preceded_by = "Henry Fool" (1997)
website = http://www.faygrimfilm.com/
imdb_id = 0444628

"Fay Grim" (2006) is a film by writer/director 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 is 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 MPAA rated "Fay Grim" with an R rating for language and some sexuality.

Plot

A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Jeff Goldblum) to try to locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Thomas Jay Ryan). Published in them is information that could compromise the security of the U.S., causing Fay to first head to Paris to fetch them...

Cast

*Parker Posey as Fay Grim
*James Urbaniak as Simon Grim
*Liam Aiken as Ned Grim
*Jeff Goldblum as Agent Fulbright
*Megan Gay as Principal
*Chuck Montgomery as Angus James
*Leo Fitzpatrick as Carl Fogg
*Saffron Burrows as Juliet
*Elina Löwensohn as Bebe
*Thomas Jay Ryan as Henry Fool

External links

* [http://www.faygrimfilm.com Official site]
* [http://madeinatlantis.com/movies_central/2007/fay_grim.htm "Fay Grim" Production Notes]
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*imdb title | id=0444628 | title=Fay Grim