Fay Grim (2006)
Bekkah:
This movie was listed as “arthouse” and Danya was like “oh no, what if it’s bad like The Mountain?” and I was like “Danya, that is the worst movie in existence, it can’t be that bad.” And it wasn’t! But it was still Very Bad. This really felt like someone’s (some man’s) senior thesis movie. It was just bad in like, a way that screams I Am Very Deep. Like a 14 year old getting an old timey porno, which ends up holding the keys to a mystery? And a woman shoving a cell phone in her undies and then getting super orgasmy when she gets calls? And some international espionage? What even happened? Jeff was in norm-core phase. He started with a deep V, but then it just became Ties All The Time — such a letdown! Jeff as a cop is a trope I could do without, but we still have like 15 more episodes of Law & Order so I better get used to us!
Danya:
From the very first moment of this movie and I asked Bekkah “is this a joke?” I couldn’t tell if the acting or writing was worse. They did this “arty” camera angle thing where there was not one straight shot in the whole damn movie. Bekkah drank whenever people said the character’s name while they were TALKING DIRECTLY to her. Like “Fay, I had so much to tell you about, Fay.” I liked Parker Posey’s goth in the rain look, and it did technically pass the Bechdel test, but wow. This whole thing wreaked of men trying to hard. Except for Jeff, who seemed like he had all his color sucked out of him like a eggplant ravaged by Bunnicula. Apparently this movie was a sequel to a movie that won something at Cannes. Should we have watched that movie instead?
I still don’t know if it was a joke, but I hope so.
2/10 Goldartfilms
A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is information that could compromises the security of the U.S., causing Fay to first head to Paris to fetch them ...
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