2022 · history · drama
Farewell, Mr. Haffmann
Directed by Fred Cavayé1h 55m2022
Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no other choice but to conclude an agreement whose consequences, over the months, will upset the fate of our three characters.
Our read: Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2022) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded history · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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