Félicité – Wellington Film Society
10 Kent Terrace, Mt Victoria, Wellington
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Alain Gomis, France/Belgium/Senegal/Germany 2017, 123 minutes HD M adult themes.
Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans, goes the old saying - though for the variously stymied characters of Félicité, life hits them when they have no plan at all. A loose, vibrant fourth feature film from Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis, Félicité likewise builds to a fever of energy and activity while never sketching out more than the bones of a narrative: 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.
Following a proudly independent club singer through the ragged streets of Kinshasa as she seeks a way to save her hospitalized son, Gomis’ latest is far from the miserablist issue drama the synopsis portends, instead weaving a sensual, sometimes hopeful, sometimes disturbing urban tapestry with threads of image, sound, poetry, and song. - Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 February 2017
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