Fay Grim

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Fay Grim
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Directed by	Hal Hartley
Produced by	Hal Hartley Jason Kilot Joana Vicente
Written by	Hal Hartley
Starring	Parker Posey James Urbaniak Liam Aiken Jeff Goldblum
Music by	Hal Hartley
Cinematography	Sarah Cawley
Editing by	Hal Hartley
Distributed by	Magnolia Pictures
Release date(s)	January 19, 2007 (Sundance Film Festival) May 18, 2007 (limited)
Running time	118 min.
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Language	English
Preceded by	Henry Fool (1997)
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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.

[edit] 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...