Big Goodbye - Sam Wasson German In the seaside town of

In the seaside town of 'Hope Gap' Edward announces to Grace that he is leaving her after 29 years of marriage throwing her life into disarray

inspired editing and brilliantly utilised soundtrack

His mind becomes drifts both into childhood memories and worries about the future in his newly vulnerable state

Told in a non-linear structure which heightens the intrigue and adds political context

Big Goodbye - Sam Wasson German In the seaside town of'The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood' by Sam Wasson (397 page paperback) Sight and Sound magazine's 'Book of 2020' is now available in paperback it is an immersive look at the making of 'Chinatown' and an investigation into the lives of the key players outsized personalities who brought it to the screen: Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Robert Evans and Robert Towne. The film is also framed as marking the end of filmmaker