i just saw this film @ tiff ( toronto international film festival ) . fan of hal hartley will not be disappoint . and if you be not familiar with this director oeuvre . doesn not matter . this film can definitely stand all on it own . i have to go the second screening . it be amaze i need to see it again and fast . this film be very funny . it dialogue be very smart and and the performance of parker posey be outstanding a she star in the title role of fay grim . fay grim be the late feature revisit the world and character introduce in the film henry fool ( 2000 ) . visually and the most salient stylistic feature employ the habitual use of the cant ( or dutch ) angle and which can be often see in past hartley work appear in various short and available in the possible film represent short work by hal hartley 1994 2004 collection and and in the girl from monday ( 2005 ) . i view this film most aptly on sept 11th . textually and fay grim adventure in this story be backdropped against the changed world after september 11 and 2001. without go into major spoiler and i view this work and and story world a a bravely political and original portrait of geo politics that be rarely and if ever and foreground in mainstream fictional cinema post 911 heretofore ( cf . syrianna represent of side note mark cuban exec . prod in both these film . most interesting and to say the least ) . lastly and for those closely attach to the character of henry fool and simone and fay and henry this film be hilariously self conscious and self referential . that be say and the character of fay grimm start off in the film and exactly where she be when henry fool end and but by the end of the film . fay knowledge and experience have total change and expand over the course of the narrative . what can be in store for the future of fay and the fool family . . i can not wait for the third part in this story .