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Félicité

2017

Alain Gomis

Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka, Nadine Ndebo ...

6.1

163

Drama Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Loose, vibrant (...) It’s a film in which a hard-earned smile, the contact between one person’s skin and another’s, or a serene strain of music amid the everyday noise can qualify as a dramatic event."	POS
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Loosely scripted, intensely performed and loaded with energy"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"Undemonstrative but at the same time oddly compelling (...) 'Felicité' is a challenging, perhaps overlong, but also quietly resonant slice of new African cinema."	POS
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"The film's sudden devotion to symbolism (...) never transcends stylish posturing (...) 'Félicité' feels at best incomplete (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Bradley Warren The Playlist	"Every frame of 'Félicité' vibrates to the rhythms of the streets of Kinshasa and makes a case for the vitality of music in Congolese cinema."	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Mr. Gomis’s cinematic style is spectacularly multifaceted. The camerawork and cutting often have the fleetness of a documentary, but there’s nothing sloppy about them."	POS

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