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Felix and Meira Reviews
Cried a lot but worth it. Very emotional and warm movie. So recommended
This idea of the film shooting technique director made the film more attractive to people.
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.
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.
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 온라인카지노추천 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!
Among other things, a reminder that leaving an Ultraorthodox Jewish community is not usually neat and clean. The mix of languages is confusing. To be accurate, the film should be mostly in Yiddish. I can't help but feel that the extensive sections in French and English are marketing ploys.
This was not what I expected... and... unrealistic... and just boring...SORRY.
I was kind of intrigued by the concept but it turned out to be dull and nothing was explained. I understood the sad life Meira was forced to live but she did get out to ... what exactly? Supposedly the best canadian film of 2014 but not sure it was worth of all that praise.
This was a really interesting film to see! They speak English, French and Yiddish so you'll need subtitles if you don't know one or more of those languages. It's set in Montreal, right in my neighbourhood, and it's the story a woman who is a Hassidic Jew who falls in love with a French guy. I really wanted to see this, especially living where I do, among this exact community. It was a really interesting window into this type of life. This film was Canada's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscars, but it wasn't nominated.
Mais um bom filme que aborda as questões do judaísmo. O machismo, a repressão à mulher etc. Uma mulher que segue as riscas as leis judaicas e a submissão ao mariado acaba conhecendo um homem sem religião que a faz refletir e mudar sua vida completamente.
For the most part, this felt very disjointed. Are we supposed to believe that Felix is a native English speaker? And what is there about him that made him feel as if he "didn't fit in" to his family of origin exactly?? He doesn't give any indication of being at all unusual. The two of them connecting seems implausible at best. And the most bizarre thing- what was with the weird sequence thrown in from nowhere- where the people from the club talk about how Felix "danced like a vacuum cleaner"? I'm giving it 2.5 stars because chassidic life is realistically portrayed- and not demonized as in most such movies. But definitely could have found a better way to spend $10 bucks.
As Felix(Martin Dubreuil) and Meira(Hadas Yaron) meet and bond over a shared interest in music and art, this movie asks in sensitive and understated fashion in a variety of languages and settings whether these two misfits can fit in anywhere...and whether that is at all important. So, "Felix and Meira" is not meant as a criticism per se of Orthodox Judaism that Meira belongs to. But it does point out that it and Meira's husband Shulem(Luzer Twersky) are ill-equipped to deal with the postpartum depression she is probably suffering from. Meanwhile, Felix has severely mixed feelings from visiting his domineering father on his deathbed.
More like Felix and My-oh-my, what a soft and under-spoken film.
Slow paced, and clear from the start that nothing good is going to come from this. Difficult to care about any of the characters. Also used an unnecessarily cruel analogy/device, killing a mouse to show how horrible the world can be. Yep, when everyone is making poor initial choices, Disneyland isn't going to be the glorious destination.
The movie is quite interesting. The story is about a married woman that is lonely in a closed religious community and her slow metamorphosis into a secular lifestyle while coping with her community and accepting who she is. The film setting is in Montreal and New York, and a small part in Venice. The actors give great performances and the movie moves along well. She accepts a friendship from a secular man in the neighborhood, and she finally realizes who she is and has to abandon her husband and community to seek happiness. The movie is in Yiddish, English, and French. I highly recommend this introspective drama.
Interesting subject. Flat response. A woman escapes an overly controlling community to find emancipation ... in an awkwardly introduced relationship and tight jeans.
Il y a un calme à même la tempête dans ce film de Maxime Giroux. Je n'étais pas bouleversé, pas peiné, je n'étais que témois d'une histoire déchirante... Plongé dans un univers que je ne connais. Une religion dont j'ignore tout. Fascination tranquille.