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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...
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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...
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Felix leaves his lover Daniel in Dieppe in search of his biological father after the death ... more
of his mother left him under the impression his father did not want to be contacted. After her death Felix discovers a box of hidden letters from his father and ...
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 south from Normandy to Marseilles in search of the father who abandoned him before he was born. His journey (mainly by hitchhiking but also by slightly less legal means) forms the bulk of the film's storyline, combined with a handful of characters who become brief but important parts of his life. Sami Bouajili carries the film magnificently, switching effortlessly from the lighter, comedic moments (of which there are many, including a surprising amount regarding the character's HIV-positive status) to Felix's search for self. There is a rather unnecessary subplot concerning a witnessed murder, but even it has a moving conclusion. On paper, perhaps, not the most enticing of prospects,Drole de Felixis, in it's own quiet way, a gem. --Phil Udell
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Advantages: Cheap, functional, and close to the city centre. Disadvantages: Not for the person wanting luxury.
For my second visit to Poland after Krakow last year we had the pleasure of staying in what I would conclude as another much underestimated hotel in Poland. Star ratings for hotels in Poland seem to be a far removed reflection of what we in Britain measure as a good hotel.
The Felix hotel, rated as two stars on internet and relevant literature references such as the well known Expedia, is in my opinion as a quite experienced European city traveller, way above the standard of two stars for what we consider here. As a quick comparison we stayed in a three star hotel in Italy in the same week and that hotel did not compare at all with the Felix in any of the required formats for my own rating of hotels. The Felix was far superior.
The Felix is not in the city centre but is close enough (ten minutes maximum by tram) to reach, and just ...
Advantages: Truffle thinks Felix are the cats whiskers! Disadvantages: Few flavours, and made by Nestl'e.
My 10-month-old kitten, Truffle, is a really weird eater! She will not drink water unless it is from a running tap in the bath, she only eats the jelly out of her tins of food (and pesters us for it) and avoids all of the green bits in the dried food. She will eat anything off our plates though! From Chicken to carrot, from fish fingers to sprouts, she will even eat McDonald?s fries. Providing it looks like we want to eat it she nab it off us somehow, either with a quick flick of the paw or with her cute "you love me" eyes!
Because of her fussy, "I wont eat it if you wont" attitude it has been difficult to find her any treats. She dislikes all of the whiskers varieties, especially the pockets that she even refuses to chase when they are rolled across the floor! Thanks to Felix Lickin's I have not had to resort to a bowl of cat treats ...
treley 17.02.2004
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Advantages: The cat loves it and there are a choice of 6 flavours Disadvantages: Humans have to clean up after the cat
When our cat comes running around our feet we know he wants something. It is obviously a choice of two things. He wants us to open the back door to let him out to go and play or he wants feeding. Most of the time he wants feeding so he has a choice of two brands which we but for him. He gets a scoop of iams once a day but that is another story.
Most of the time we feed him Felix which, he loves. His favourite is Felix with tuna. As soon as we open the pack he gets a hint of the smell and instantly becomes attached to our legs whilst we are trying to put the food in his dish. With the knife we try to use it just to push into his dish but at the same time the cat is using his head to nudge our hands out of the way so he can get stuck in.
The pack is about the right size for the cat because he just manages to eat it all. The pack is ...
Sirus619 11.11.2002
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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.
"...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)
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.
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