Fay Grim
Fay Grim is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Hal Hartley. The film is a sequel to Hartleys 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 Fays attempt to unravel an increasingly violent mystery in Europe.
Seven years after the events of Henry Fool, Fay Grim Parker Posey is coerced by a CIA agent Jeff Goldblum to try to locate the confession novel notebooks that belonged to her fugitive husband Thomas Jay Ryan whom he believes to be deceased. Fay is launched into a world of espionage as she travels to Paris to retrieve some of the journals, each having mysteriously appeared in the hands of the most unlikely of people. Simon Grim, Fays brother and Nobel Prizewinning poet because of Henry, remains home with his sisters son, the CIA and his publisher.Even in death it seems Henry is a force of nature causing life changing ructions in the lives of those he has touched. Fay is surrounded by competing agents all vying for her help in retrieving notebooks as she and Simon start getting clues to what the unpublishable nonsense of The Confession is really all about and why the CIA believe they contain information that could compromise U.S. security. A former airhostess befriends Fay and reveals she was similarly touched by Henry s chaotic influence and aid her in her efforts. ........
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