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Felix and Meira

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A young married woman finds freedom from the Orthodox Jewish community through a relationship with a young man mourning his father's death.
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Félix & Meira uses its simple structure and slight story as the setup for a sensitive, well-acted romance whose unusual specifics belie universal truths.

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Tom Long Detroit News 07/17/2015
B+
Delicate, warm and worried, "Felix and Meira" is a coming-of-age film about two grown people stunted by social circumstance. Go to Full Review
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 06/04/2015
This is the sort of movie whose warmth toward its characters is contagious. Go to Full Review
Ty Burr Boston Globe 05/28/2015
2.5/4
When is an image held for too long? At what point does a shot's duration outlast its emotional information? As ardent and earnest as it is, "Felix and Meira" is a test case. Go to Full Review
Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema 09/20/2021
2.5/5
A quiet and silent sort of romance movie, one where looks to convey emotions where words are not allowed. Go to Full Review
M. Faust The Public (Buffalo) 09/27/2017
The story takes a path that is not surprising. What makes the film engaging is the route it takes to get there. Go to Full Review
Craig Mathieson The Sunday Age 03/04/2016
3/5
Plot complications lessen the movie, but intermittently it is genuinely moving. Go to Full Review
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Munkhchimeg T 08/10/2024 Cried a lot but worth it. Very emotional and warm movie. So recommended See more Bahad j 08/10/2024 This idea of ​​the film shooting technique director made the film more attractive to people. See more 01/25/2021 watchable for Hadas Yaron's performance See more 04/08/2020 Sought out this film to see the performance of actor Luzer Twersky after watching his own experience with leaving the Orthodox community in an intense documentary titled "One of Us."  Twersky does a fine job here, given the weak script and tedious pacing of this unhappy story. The director shows promise and was perhaps aspiring to pay homage to famed director Ingmar Bergman, the master of on-camera alienation. Yet, this movie just presents a series of forced situations with awkward dialogue, long-running shots of melancholy faces and people putting their jackets on and off. Watch "Shtisel" and "One of Us" if you want to get much better views of life among and apart from this culture. See more nefasto r @Nefasto 02/13/2019 Yes, subtle indeed, and that is the great advantage this film have. In a community were even looking the opposite gender in the eyes is forbidden, you just need a gaze is a daring thing to do. Loved the acting and the feelings in it, and what helped a lot the delivery, was the choice of very good songs in very strategic moments. In other words, this is indeed kosher. See more 06/03/2016 The longest 5 minutes I have spent in a movie theatre. Fortunately, I had brought my iPad. "I'm going to sit in the lobby and read my book," I whispered to my wife. We were at a local Jewish Film Festival and I knew she would stay to the bitter end. After all, she's a woman. Jerry Seinfeld did a routine about this phenomenon; men will switch from one TV channel to another, every five seconds, while their wife will sit and watch a test pattern for an hour. "Maybe it will get better," they argue. Movies don't get better, they get worse. A moviemaker works like hell to make the opening scene as intriguing as possible to "hook" the viewer. Just like the first chapter in a novel. So the director of this turkey had the Chasidic shlemiel whose wife would soon dump him for the first non-Chasidic shlemiel who hit on her fill his wine cup so full that it spilled all over his fingers. After all, he had only been pouring wine into the same cup every Sabbath Eve for about ten or twenty years so he obviously hadn't mastered the task. Because all ultra-Orthodox Jews are uncoordinated morons. When the movie was over I met my wife and a few other women who were walking out of the theatre. "Well, that was hard work," one of them said. So do you think she'll walk out of the next p.o.s. she's been conned into attending because some brain-dead "film buffs" (who think watching paint dry is what "art" is all about) have given it some cockamamy "prize" before it's over? Not a chance! See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A young married woman finds freedom from the Orthodox Jewish community through a relationship with a young man mourning his father's death.
Director
Maxime Giroux
Producer
Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
Screenwriter
Maxime Giroux, Alexandre Laferrière
Production Co
Metafilms
Rating
R (A Scene of Sexuality/Nudity)
Genre
Romance, Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 27, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$447.4K
Runtime
1h 46m
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