Cinema Chats: “Farewell Mr. Haffmann”

Join us on Thursday, September 12th at 6pm ET on Zoom for another installment of our Cinema Chats series!

Farewell Mr. Haffmann (2021) sees the Jewish Haffmann family decide to leave France covertly as the Nazis occupy Paris. Mr. Haffmann (played by renowned French actor Daniel Auteuil), a jeweler, stays behind to make arrangements for their small shop before joining them. He sets the film in motion by making his new assistant, Joseph Mercier, an offer to buy the shop and house on paper, but at no real cost, hoping to take it back when he returns. But Haffmann is never able to leave Paris. He hides out in the store’s basement, totally dependent on Mercier. This psychological thriller focuses on how extraordinary circumstances can drastically shift power dynamics.

Join us with film critic Laura Clifford and Cinema Chats moderator Lucy Shahar for a discussion about this suspenseful drama.

We recommend you watch the film in advance of this lecture. Farewell Mr. Haffmann can be streamed on Amazon Prime, Apple, YouTube and Google Play.

Please see the Zoom link in your order confirmation email. This program is entirely virtual.

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Adults $12
Seniors $10
Students $8

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Laura Clifford, after having attended film courses at Emerson College and workshops in 16 mm film production at the late great Boston Film and Video Foundation, began producing and cohosting Reeling: The Movie Review Show in March, 1991. This biweekly broadcast has been outpacing The Simpsons in number of episodes ever since. Its companion website, Reeling Reviews, went live in 1995 and features thousands of film reviews and film festival coverage.

Laura is also the secretary of the Boston Society of Film Critics as well as a long time member of the Critics Choice Association (formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association) and the Online Film Critics Society.

Image Credit: From left, Daniel Auteuil and Gilles Lellouche in “Farewell Mr. Haffmann” (2021).