L’AFFAIRE FAREWELL: Test Blu-Ray

CASE FAREWELL: Blu-Ray Test

SYNOPSIS

M oscow in the early 80s, during the Cold War. Sergei Grigoriev, a KGB colonel disappointed the regime of his country, decides to bring down the system. He makes contact with a young French engineer in Moscow, Pierre Froment. The highly confidential information he gave him not long interest western secret services. Mitterrand himself was notified and decides to inform President Reagan: a huge spy network allows the Soviets to know everything about scientific research, industrial and military in the West! The two statesmen decide to use these highly sensitive data transmitted by a mysterious source in Moscow as the French have dubbed: "Farewell". Man Without stories, Pierre Froment finds himself precipitated the heart of one of the espionage cases the most stunning of the twentieth century. A case that goes beyond him and soon threatens his life and his family ...

l'Affaire Farewell

PRESS KIT

"The film evokes great cynicism and cruelty of the U.S. intelligence community who have not hesitated to sacrifice Grigoriev because they needed a victim [...] It was an inconvenient witness," said Emir Kusturica . "It is very revealing of the attitude coldly functional Western intelligence agencies. "

"Unlike most thrillers and spy movies, there was a scenario in the human dimension and a spirituality that touched me. It's very unusual that you attach a thriller as much emphasis on the part of individual human beings. "

The role of Grigoriev would be held by director Nikita Mikhalkov, before it is forced to leave the project to shoot his new film. And this is where, after a Russian actor was contemplated, spoke Emir Kusturica, the producer Christophe Rossignon took less than 15 days to convince.

It is in an abandoned factory in Ivry-sur-Seine that the film crew rebuilt the Oval Office in size.

If the action of The Farewell takes place mainly in Moscow, the film was shot in Ukraine (Kiev and Kharkov) for Part summer, and Finland (Helsinki) for the winter.

If the French cinema is almost never having existed politicians (especially when they are still present in the collective memory), the ability to Mitterrand and Reagan scene is one of reasons for Christian Carion to participate in project, with a model in mind: "I admire the English-speaking cinema who does not hesitate to make films rooted, without pretense, in their political world. "

This is because Farewell was posted to Paris in the late '60s, and he enjoyed the French culture, Christian Carion had the idea to make a lover of poetry and Léo Ferré.

Loosely based on the facts known or suspected, to build the story around The Farewell views, Christian Carion cites another movie built around this concept: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by John Ford.

As soon as the sound of a film project about The Farewell began circulating, Christian Carion saw many people approach him to express their witness, who requested anonymity.

When the scenario, all centered on the adventures of the case, it was proposed by the executive producer Christopher Rossignon, Christian Carion has chosen to put politics at the heart of the story, so to expand the role of statesmen, who have become characters in their own right.

The Farewell recounts events that occurred in 1983, in the midst of the Cold War, when a KGB colonel has provided vital information to François Mitterrand, who won the confidence of Ronald Reagan. Described by him as "one of the biggest espionage cases of the twentieth century", the event helped to weaken the Soviet empire and in the long term, to end the conflict.

Breton heart and home, wandering in fact, tried by medicine,

passion by journalist, traveler and observer of curiosity, Nicolas

Hulot likes to recall that he "was not born environmentalist, but he is

become. " His journey, fraught with discoveries, experiences and

meetings that led to an across the globe, has gradually

forged his fight for ecology and more generally for a

more humanistic approach in the world.

After a few months in medical school, he held several small

jobs and discovered photography. Göksin Sipahioglu, creator of the agency

SIPA Press trusts him; Nicolas Hulot made his photojournalism

first job. He travels the world and for 5 years and has witnessed

of significant national and international events, particularly in Africa

Southern or South Africa with the events leading up to the end

of apartheid. The picture leads naturally to an interest in the press

written and spoken, and he had the opportunity to go to France Inter. From 1978 to

1987 he was a journalist and producer of several shows. It innovates

in methods of reporting, making himself an actor of adventures that

Live is live with its auditors. Thus he notes some challenges

as the descent of the Zambezi to paddle or sits at the North Pole

geographically with the first single-engine aircraft. In 1987, chance of

life leads to the broadcasting, at TF1. A simple experiment which

should last a few months, and that turns into a real

slice of life. For 22 years, Nicolas Hulot was successively

producer and presenter of programs "Ushuaia, the magazine

Far "(1987-1995)," Opération Okavango "(1996-1997) and finally

"Ushuaia Nature" (since 1998).

VIDEO CODEC: AVC
1080p
FORMAT: 1.85:1
Pathé (France), availability: 17 March 2010

l'Affaire Farewell

No need to dwell or lie beyond reason about the services offered here: the master image shines and stands out as one of the best pressings made by the publisher for a long time. Armed with a definition of the strongest, the level of detail and subtle tension, this pressing breathable film grain and lags in the report Franchise leaving in the lurch. Color palette will show the richest, revealing beautiful primary colors, and returning the temperature sometimes lively atmosphere with superb visual energy. Fluency, flawless, and the open frame (1.85) can discover the world depicted talking movie at its best. The external display very fine day rendering, and interiors, usually more complex to recreate, do little to increase the level of grain under control at all times. Smooth images and clear, a fine aptly, a clean room striking. Overall this baling proposed by Pathé itself as a blessing, always solid, dense, detailed and natural.

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DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1: French
16 Bit, 48 Khz
OFFSET: no

diapason-mention-speciale The premium also realism, duplicating the sound field of visual requirement. The scene has a beautiful front intelligibility, with a spatial rendering optimized, realistic and end (or refined). The center lane shows a beautiful presence, restoring variations of voices and accents of the protagonists with a great force and a dynamic endless. No sense of listening fatigue will not make its appearance, as is the overall imaging shows detailed, fresh and pleasant, sounding frequency matched and worked subtly spread over all active channels. In this sense, listen at a higher level than usual will reveal the internal wealth of the soundstage, never sursauturer his listening room. The frequency response of the mediums very breathable ventilated, and a clear high end and too detailed, open and impacting. The stereo channels distill the essential ambient atmospheres and sounds with subtle acoustic panoramic. Both have solid momentum, and Triphonie who is gradually won the support.

The rear acoustic scene, without being neglected, comes into fruitful opportunities. It carries all the sounds for the film range from subtle and imaginative ways, without ever really seize and throw artificially. Front as rear respect this principle of realism wise, that openness and clarity of sound that the pact based acoustic film: the weight of words, the intensity of the dialogue (beautiful final sequence located in prison, full of ambient sounds abstract and concrete both enhanced by the crudeness of lights), the subtle harmonic dressing which bathes all ... All these elements are integrated with a finesse and a sense of that leave about, again, on the tile. The LFE channel will show less bulky, but its presence will be appreciated during key sequences.

Transparency audio messages dominate over everything else: angelic clarity, signal to noise ratio at the lowest for even greater fidelity, everything seems to have been designed and built with great care. The overall dynamics, even if it be somewhat "limited" by the definition (16 bit only) remains striking sharpness and clarity, allowing for some volume lift and thrust acoustic sound that impose a strong presence and untied. Natural beauty and clarity really optimized, this soundtrack will win the support and let them breathe the essential features sound film with a real presence. What a pleasure to watch, again, the acoustic properties of the codec DTS-HD Master Audio. Although unspectacular, mixing transcended sees himself on the ground and the presence of the seat, and has micro-breaths that we do not doubt aurtions never have received on a single DVD edition SD Dolby Digital.

Audio commentary by the filmmaker
Photo Gallery (superb HD, about six minutes), a classic that we appreciate the editor, writing, a lot.
Documentary "Between Fiction and Reality" (35 minutes)
Making-of (24 minutes)