FAREWELL, MR. HAFFMANN, an audience favourite of this year’s Alliance Française French Film Festival, will release in cinemas from this Thursday 14th April in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth, followed by Brisbane on 21st April and Adelaide on 28th April.
Writer/director Fred Cavayé’s gripping new historical drama set in Nazi occupied Paris of 1941, is based on the multi Molière Award-winning play from Jean-Philippe Daguerre, and stars the legendary Daniel Auteuil in one of his most superlative screen performances to date.
The film co-stars Gilles Lellouche as François Mercier, an ordinary man whose only goal is to start a family with Blanche (Sara Giraudeau), the woman he loves. François works for Mr. Haffmann (Auteuil), a talented Jewish jeweller. Under the German occupation, the employer and employee are forced to strike a deal which, over the following months, will upend the fate of all concerned.
In FAREWELL, MR. HAFFMANN, the viewer is guided through the world of Vichy France, where lives are irrevocably shaped by the twin scourges of war and the black market. Rich in moral complexity and empathy, with several twists too good to spoil, it is grand, big-screen adult entertainment at its finest.
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