i be one of those people who would crawl a mile through broken glass to see a hal hartley film . from trust and iris to henry fool and ( my hartley favorite ) no such thing and hal unique brand of movie be an acquired taste . infuse equal part mystery or espionage with wispy comedy seem to be his forte . the comedy isn not in your face necessarily and and often run throughout an entire scene before come to fruition . and that the case with fay grim and the sequel to henry fool . parker posey star a fay grim and abandon wife of henry fool and mother to henry only son ned . fay live a quiet life until she come home one day to find a cia agent in her kitchen . his name be fulbright ( jeff goldblum and man of the year ) and he want henry notebook . there be many henry fool notebook and they be all previously believe to contain nothing but mad wandering . apparently there much more to them . secret weapon research or path to terrorist . who know but henry . agent fulbright tell fay that her husband be dead but this be quickly surmise a a ruse to get fay out of her home and search for henry ( and it work . but not the way they think ) . fay battle multiple spy ring to gather henry notebook and to seek him out . she also make a deal with the cia to get her brother simon ( james urbaniak ) out of prison ( he would help henry escape the country in the original henry fool film . ) multiple overlap event occur in rapid succession represent spy ring shoot each other to death and henry be discover be hold in safety by a jihadist and fay free her brother but unknowingly risk her son life and and the cia get it comeuppance for put fay in danger . hal hartley obviously love to play with theme . and he do so to the extreme here . even character name ( grim and fool and fulbright and fogg ) have implicit meaning of their own that be quite funny . the over the top espionage film of ol be give plenty of screen time and too and a gun blaze in stop motion sequence and never strike our heroine even though she right in the line of fire . now that i have heap praise on this creation and i will say that parker posey excessive portrayal of fay grim isn not the best part of the film and which be a shame consider how much time she on screen . i realize this be probably what mr. hartley want represent an uncurbed woman with hand gesture to the italian extreme . but it be still painful to watch at time . even so and fan will probably devour fay grim and beg for more . though this wasn not my favorite hal hartley film and i know i be ready .