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Oct 24, 2017 · In a scene from Alain Gomis’s entrancing new film Félicité, the band members (playing characters based loosely on themselves) gather to decide how much each of them can contribute towards an...
May 5, 2017 · The film’s striking opening scene directly immerses you into this electric and explosive atmosphere, bringing a strong realism to the film. How did you manage to direct these live music scenes and preserve this spontaneous feel? What do you think are the major challenges while filming live music?
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- A Ferocious Woman
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- Will and Acceptance
- In Conclusion: Félicité
This is very much a film of two distinct halves. The first is fast-paced, almost breathless, as Félicité throws herself into the quest for cash with zeal, approaching friends, employers, and even people she has never before laid eyes on, for contributions. But proceedings slow perhaps a little too much at the halfway mark as she and Samo, plus Féli...
Those scenes in which Félicité tries to raise funds are brutal – both physically and emotionally. She visits Samo’s father, from whom she is long-estranged, and he uses it as an opportunity for revenge (“You puffed out your chest. A strong woman!”). She visits an old friend of her mother’s (or possibly a relative – it isn’t made explicit), only to ...
Beyabrings gravitas to the role, her Félicité has clearly been a fighter her entire life, and she exudes attitude, determination, and strength. Every battle she’s fought is etched into the contours of her face, which we see in imperfect close-ups a lot of the time. Often her expression is blank, yet you are never in any doubt which emotions are boi...
The film has an almost documentary style that perfectly suits the social realism of its subject matter, but the fantasy sequences that pop up every now and again are perhaps less successful. Apparently, Gomis (whose last theatrical feature was 2012’s Aujourd’hui) was keen to show Félicité as a “mythological character”, in the mold of a classical Gr...
Gomishas said the film should prick Europeans’ sensibilities about the way in which their own countries treat the poor and sick. But, living in the UK, that’s a blow that doesn’t quite land, because here we have an (admittedly embattled) National Health Service, that remains free to use. By and large, we Brits don’t have to call in markers or knock...
Félicité – Senegal’s entry for 2018’s Foreign Language Oscar – contains some of the most powerful moments you’ll see in any movie this year. However, Gomis‘s film never quite amounts to the sum of its impressive parts, its fantasy sequences distracting from, and superfluous to, the main action. What is your favourite musical score in a movie this y...
Feb 15, 2017 · Director Alain Gomis brings Félicité to the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, and it’s a delicately balanced story that addresses hardship head on without seeming in the slightest bit...
Oct 26, 2017 · Imparting nourishment for all five senses while also sobering in its impact, Félicité charts several days in the life of its namesake, a nightclub singer who needs to scrounge together a hefty sum to rehabilitate her son after a brutal motorcycle accident.
Oct 26, 2017 · At crucial junctures in Félicité’s desperate scramble to raise funds for her son’s medical care, Mr. Gomis, who wrote the screenplay with Olivier Loustau and Delphine Zingg, expands time...
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Oct 16, 2017 · Set in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félicité is the new film from Alain Gomis, a French director of Guinea-Bissauan and Senegalese descent.
