Felix (Sami Bouajila) is a thirtysomething, HIV-positive gay guy. In this film about family and the discovery of self, Felix is first seen jauntily riding his bike. When he gets... more
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Drole De Felix [2000]
If the idea of a French, subtitled, gay, soul-searching road film doesn't exactly sound
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like your cup of tea, think again:Drole de Felixis a film that will transcend any barrier. Felix of the title is a young, gay French Arab who decides to travel sout...
Drole De Felix [2000]
If the idea of a French, subtitled, gay, soul-searching road film doesn't exactly sound
... more
like your cup of tea, think again:Drole de Felixis a film that will transcend any barrier. Felix of the title is a young, gay French Arab who decides to travel sout...
Plot: Felix (Sami Bouajila) is a thirtysomething, HIV-positive gay guy. In this film about family and the discovery of self, Felix is first seen jauntily riding his bike. When he gets laid off from work and starts cleaning out his dead mother's house, Felix uncovers some old letters from his father, who he's never met. The discovery takes Felix on a hitchhiking journey to Marseilles to search for the family that he never had. On the way, he meets a number of quirky characters identified by intertitles that describe each one respectively as his little brother, his grandmother, his cousin, his sister, and finally his father; in what becomes his surrogate family. Felix kills time on the highway singing songs as he sashays through the emerald fuzz of the French countryside, waiting for a car to pick him up. He's at home in a field of buttercups, flying a kite, or crooning to the sun to come out and shine, and he never misses his favorite soap opera about a viciously superficial family that's out to get each other. In the end, directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau allow Felix to show us that the bonds within family are about much more than blood.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 0 (All Regions)
Studio(s): PECCADILLO PICTURES; PINNACLE VISION
Release date: 23/04/2001
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: PPDVD 006
Barcode: 5060018650067
Producer: Philippe Martin
Director of Photography: Matthieu Poirot-Delpech
Screenwriter: Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
Languages
Main Language: French
DVD Description
Felix (Sami Bouajila) is a thirtysomething, HIV-positive gay guy. In this film about family and the discovery of self, Felix is first seen jauntily riding his bike. When he gets laid off from work and starts cleaning out his dead mother's house, Felix uncovers some old letters from his father, who he's never met. The discovery takes Felix on a hitchhiking journey to Marseilles to search for the family that he never had. On the way, he meets a number of quirky characters identified by intertitles that describe each one respectively as his little brother, his grandmother, his cousin, his sister, and finally his father; in what becomes his surrogate family. Felix kills time on the highway singing songs as he sashays through the emerald fuzz of the French countryside, waiting for a car to pick him up. He's at home in a field of buttercups, flying a kite, or crooning to the sun to come out and shine, and he never misses his favorite soap opera about a viciously superficial family that's out to get each other. In the end, directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau allow Felix to show us that the bonds within family are about much more than blood.
Professional reviews
Review: "...The movie cleverly and subtly portrays a diversified aspect of contemporary French society....[With] a healthy dose of humor..." (Box Office, p.58, 01/08/2001)
"...A quiet, entrancing French film..." (Chicago Sun-Times, p.32, 09/11/2001)
"...ADVENTURES OF FELIX is an odyssey of self-discovery of much charm, humor and admirable subtlety....It sparkles with winning portrayals..." (Los Angeles Times, p.6, 10/08/2001)
"...[Bouajila] has a distracted elegance....FELIX makes its points gently..." (New York Times, p.E16, 15/06/2001)
.... Arther ( Michael Stark ) is Virgil's partner who is not a corrupt officer. Shirley DeSouza ( Anna Keaveney ) is Felix's mum.
On DVD you also have the chance to see the interviews with the cast and director ( Ronny Yu ) and the chance to see behind the scenes. Plus a lot more.
Personally i loved the film from start to finish. There is a little bit of comedy throughout the film although they have made it on a serious aspect.
The film certificate is 18 for obvious reasons.
Sam is wearing a kilt throughout the film, and looks cool in it aswell. Robert is wearing his beloved Liverpool shirt (even under his suit jacket)
There is plenty of good action throughout the film....
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Advantages: Three of the best of De Niro's films Disadvantages: One Lame movie, one turkey, and a confusing format issue
...had compiled of collection of his finest works I would have replaced This Boys Life and City By The Sea with Angel Heart and Once Upon A Time In America. The thing that surprised me most about this collection is Warner's failure to include TheDeer Hunter; which is part of the collection and ultimately the movie that made De Niro a household name.
About the Box Set:
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The first and very important thing to point out is that Warner released two different versions of the Box Set; one is a pure delight, the other nothing special. If you are ordering off the internet there is no way of identifying which version you will get so this may be the one DVD box set that is ideally purchased in a shop.
Format 1
The first and most impressive format features a box with an inlay which you can separate and fold out...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Advantages: Brilliant British actors with a odd US expert thrown in. Disadvantages: Don't expect another Tarantino film.
...'s working relationship with The Lizard hasn't much more to live as in an audacious double cross Elmo leaves town with his latest drug invention destined for England and a sale with a rival drug baron.
Awaiting Elmo at Liverpool airport is hired gun FelixDeSouza, (Robert Carlyle) a smart talking streetwise know-all who should deliver Elmo to the drug baron, the fantastically named Leopold Durant (Ricky Tomlinson). Felix's payment for this job is nothing other than two match day tickets for Liverpool versus Manchester Untied. What none of the characters know at this point though is that The Lizard has released his own hired gun, a beautiful assassin named Dakota Phillips (Emily Mortimer), who has tracked Elmo to Liverpool and sets about shooting up his meeting with Durant.
Elmo and Felix manage to escape with their lives but little else...
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