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Farewell Mt. Haffmann - Film presented at Sarasota Jewish Film Festival

Moved Online28mar9:00 amFarewell Mt. Haffmann - Film presented at Sarasota Jewish Film FestivalRegal Hollywood, 1993 Main Street, Sarasota9:00 am Will be available for 72 hours onlineAreaSarasotaTypeFestival,Film,Fundraising EventCostVirtual Pass - All 14 Films $180.00, This event- $15

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Set in Paris from May 1941 (i.e. during the Nazi Occupation), this is a tense, superbly written and acted and pitch-perfect morality tale. The themes are large – compromise, duplicity, greed, inhumanity… – but the focus is determinedly narrow, and it’s all the more powerful for that.

Daniel Auteuil plays Joseph Haffmann, an exceptionally talented jeweler who is a Polish Jew, and who arranges for his family to flee to a safe part of France. Haffmann stays behind (very briefly being the plan), hides in the basement, and nominally sells the business to his assistant Francois Mercier (Gilles Lellouche). Mercier does a roaring trade in jewelry and is decidedly unethical to a point way beyond what might be excusable or unavoidable under the circumstances. What follows is for the most part a three-hander involving these two men and Mercier’s wife Blanche (Sara Giraudeau). All three actors are impressive.

If the premise of the tale is relatively straightforward, you may be assured that there’s a great deal more to it, none of which you should know going in.

Farewell Mr. Haffmann feels and looks like a play – most of the film is set inside one building – and was indeed based on a play of the same name by Jean-Philippe Daguerre. But it loses absolutely nothing in the transition to the big screen from any supposed ‘staginess’. This is a first-rate drama with considerable cumulative intensity – and a quorum of irony – and it’s unreservedly recommended.

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(Tuesday) 9:00 am

Location

Regal Hollywood, 1993 Main Street, Sarasota

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Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

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Cost

Virtual Pass – All 14 Films $180.00, This event- $15

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