Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Gerhard Stoltz I had some previous knowledge of the Farewell-affair, so i came in knowing pretty much what to expect. On the whole they seemed to pull it off pretty well. The one thing that did grate me though were the scenes with Ronald Reagan in them. The acting and dialogue in those are way under par for the movie and seriously impacted my enjoyment of the rest of it.But yeah. If you want the reverse Snowden then this is the movie for you. The pacing is all right. It is not horribly complicated, as far as spy thrillers go.A tense dropoff here, an escape here, some exposition of character motivation, some family drama, a whiff of secrecy and an outcome which is never in doubt.

SnoopyStyle It's 1981 in Moscow. Pierre Froment (Guillaume Canet) is low level French diplomat who meets Soviet colonel Sergei Gregoriev (Emir Kusturica). Sergei is dismissive of the young diplomat at first. He has a rebellious son at home. He wants to change the world, change the USSR, and sees himself as a patriot. He has an affair with a colleague. Mitterrand keeps the information closely guarded using the information as currency with American president Reagan. Sergei is given the code name 'Farewell'.Based on a book, this has the sound of truth and that's what so compelling. It's not a Bond movie or even a gritty convoluted spy thriller. The meetings are so mundane and so easy. It's not a movie high in tension except for the ending. This is a spy movie with the feel of the real world. It's about a flawed human being but he's never inhuman. There are many changes to the real story. All I know is that it has a sense of the real world.

MartinHafer To appreciate "Farewell" it probably helps if you are old enough to remember the time period in which it was set. Intrigues concerning the Soviets probably won't seem all that important to young audiences.The film begins about 1981 (though the time frame is rather vague in the story at times) in the Soviet Union. Sergei Gregoriev is a disaffected KGB official--one who has decided that the best way for his country to progress is for his government to fall. To speed this process, he's decided to leak information to the West. However, instead of going through expected channels, he picks a low-level Frenchman working in his country (Pierre Froment). Froment has no interest in this sort of intrigue and is, reluctantly, pulled into the affair. The name 'Farewell' is the code name Froment's bosses have given the case. What exactly happens next, you'll need to see for yourself, though suffice to say the true story (with some historical license in spots) helped lead to the crumbling of the USSR.While there isn't a lot of information about Gregoriev and the Farewell Affair on the internet, what is there sometimes contradicts the film. His actual name was not Gregoriev but Vladimir Vetrov. A big twist near the end is the US government betraying Gregoriev and casting him to the KGB--which did NOT happen in real life. My wife did a bit of research and found Gregoriev was very self-destructive and came to the attention of the KGB after this alcoholic stabbed a couple people and then implicated himself! Not at all what you'll see in the film--and reason to knock at least a point off the overall score. Still, the film is very tense, very well acted and fascinating throughout. I just wonder why they had to make that jab at the US. Sometimes we, like other countries, deserve it but here it just seemed a bit,...well,...odd.

liberalgems This is a very empowering, true-story about one man, Sergei Gregoriev, who probably did more to bring down the Communist government in Russia - and end the cold war - than any other person who ever lived! This man should be honored by a postage stamp in every Western country in the world and in every high school history textbook! What an incredibly brave human being!I gained a lot of insights from watching this amazing film. The Russians lost an estimated 26 million people during World War 2. That's 1 in 3 people that died in all of World War 2 did so within the borders of the Soviet Union! I can only imagine the trauma and paranoia that was inflicted on the survivors who later then came to power. It didn't help either that a monster was at the head of government (Stalin) from 1924 to 1953. And, you wonder why the Soviets had a such a mind-boggling intelligence apparatus established throughout the United States? Once this network of spies was dismantled, the Soviet leadership was blind! Out of fear they bankrupted themselves on military spending because they could no longer accurately assess what actual threats the United States posed to them!Sergei Gregoriev, knew how his government would react to such a threat and he sacrificed everything to make it happen. I don't think he would be happy with the gangster capitalism that took Communism's place. But at least there are no more brutal wars fought in desperately poor countries, which have cost millions of lives because of the Cold War! Future generations will thank you for your sacrifice, Sergei Gregoriev!