{"id":1908,"date":"2017-01-10T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2018-08-20T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T17:36:30","slug":"felicite-france-belgium-senegal-thu-1-february-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2017\/01\/felicite-france-belgium-senegal-thu-1-february-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00c9LICIT\u00c9 [FRANCE, BELGIUM, SENEGAL], THU 1 FEBRUARY, 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6g92y5oRJ9Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A heroic central performance from the Congolese actress V\u00e9ro Tshanda Beya Mputu is reason alone to see this gripping drama.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">F<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">ranco-Senegalese film-maker Alain Gomis has created a film portrait in an ambient social-realist style, showing us a woman called F\u00e9licit\u00e9: a bar singer in the tough streets of Kinshasa in the\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">. Gomis leaves it up to us to determine the precise level of irony in her name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">V\u00e9ro Tshanda Beya Mputu is a formidable presence as F\u00e9licit\u00e9, a single mum of a tearaway teen boy Samo (Gaetan Claudia), for whom she must stay strong. She is scratching a living with her music, evidently bruised and humbled by the reverses of her life, drifting into a relationship with Tabu (Papi Mpaka), the boozy, unreliable guy who once came to repair her fridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Then her son has a motorbike accident and the hospital needs a million Congolese francs (about \u00a3500) before surgery can be carried out. F\u00e9licit\u00e9 must now go around to the people in her life asking variously for loans, or the money that she is owed \u2013 a process that exposes the fault lines in her own life. This is interspersed with scenes of her singing with her band and also, mysteriously but arrestingly, the Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra playing pieces by\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/arvo-part\">Arvo P\u00e4rt<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Cinematographer C\u00e9line Bozon contrives tremendous streetscape scenes around Kinshasa itself. It\u2019s a film with seriousness and compassion, though a little lengthy and diffuse. Dramatic storm clouds gather and pass overhead without ever quite bursting into rain.\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/26\/movies\/review-felicite-alain-gomis.html?referrer=google_kp\">Click here to read the New York Times Critic&#8217;s Pick review.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/felicite_2017\/\">96% approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/felicite-lefilm.com\/\">Click here for official website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France, Belgium, Senegal, Germany, Lebanon, 2017 |Language: Lingala, French | 123 minutes | Cert: CLUB<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 Alain Gomis<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cast:\u00a0 V\u00e9ro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heroic central performance from the Congolese actress V\u00e9ro Tshanda Beya Mputu is reason alone to see this gripping drama. 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