generically speak and fay grim be a highly entertaining thriller feature two of the most inexorably enjoyable name in american movie and unshakably beautiful and gracefully spunky parker posey and endlessly charismatic and unavoidably hilarious jeff goldblum . they have many scene in the first half of the film in which we see these two insatiable presence volley off of each other and even radiate with charm when goldblum roll off hartley shamelessly epic info dump . nevertheless and if one be to deconstruct fay grim and one would see many instance in which countless scene could have be squeeze for much more benefit than they have result in be . this sort of film in joke be the sequel to hal hartley henry fool and which be make ten year earlier . it have title character posey force by cia agent goldblum to track down the notebook that be the precious possession of her miss fugitive husband and the predecessor titular anti hero . available within them be information that could concede the safety of the united state . fay first make for paris to get a hold of them but become engulf in a bona fide celebration of espionage clichés feature everything from car bomb to ambiguous helper to follow the girl to double cross to triple cross . the primary appeal of it all for me be that it such a novel approach to the sequel of a movie about a garbageman and a struggle novelist in a small town . in the original henry fool and posey play a simple woman lead a very simple life . hartley talent do not reach the height of many of the other independent newbie from the 1990s and but i do admire his wild creativity in make an inadvertent nearne sister out of her and give her a terrific predicament and a he do to her character brother and play by james urbaniak and in henry fool and a she be trap between whether or not she may still love her overwhelming refugee husband and the problematic but forceful plan of goldblum . hartley and however and be simply rid on that fragmentary idea . his plot and though complex and labyrinthine and true to the form of the spy film and it seem a if to be entirely capricious . the reason i be not bore be mostly due to the pace at which the story unfolds and not to mention the presence of posey and goldblum . the problem with the remainder of hartley cast be that i can not seem to become fond of the rest of them . it have nothing to do with how obscure they be compare to the relative star power of the two say charm master and but with how they do not seem to hold their own alongside them and though saffron burrow certainly come close . most of the scene not involve posey or goldblum be far too light on their foot and string u along with info dump we have no choice but to listen to or else be totally lose in the ensue sequence of scene . they be shot almost entirely in tiled angle and a if hartley be compensate for that implacable feeling of a lack of material . liam aiken and however and play the now teenage son of fay and henry and have a certain allure about him and seem wise beyond his year and certainly much wise than any of the adult character . perhaps hartley intend that and or maybe it simply aiken presence . the problem with a hartley film be that you never quite know what be intend and what just happen to be there . a scorsese say and cinema be a matter of what in the frame and what out . one have to be able to trust that what we see be a conscious decision by the filmmaker to remain in the finished film .