Félicité2017
Félicité (2017)
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Critic Consensus: Félicité depicts a culture and a setting unfamiliar to many viewers, but its themes - and Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu's performance - transcend borders.
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as Samo
as Tabu
as Luisant
as Hortense
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The meandering narrative has a lyrical quality consistent with the many musical numbers.
Think High Noon set in Kinshasa and backed by a Congolese beat.
Beya ... arrives fully formed here as a figure of enormous dignity and warmth, a pillar of resilience who is nonetheless all-too-humanly susceptible to exhaustion, grief and despair.
Félicité has a lyrical spirit that worms its way to the surface even at its most directionless.
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.
Gomis's handheld cameras work to keep up with the actors, who seem to move with rare freedom, but he also stages some exquisite and complex flourishes ...
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