Felix and Meira
This tenderly observed love story...isn't about religion - or its lack - but about the attraction of difference and the undeniable need to feel alive.
Felix and Meira
(Félix et Meira)
Félix and Meira is a calling card for its young director, Maxime Giroux; a story of an unconventional romance between two people living vastly different realities mere blocks away from one another. Each lost in their everyday lives, Meira (Hadas Yaron), a Hasidic Jewish wife and mother and Félix (Martin Dubreuil), a secular loner mourning the recent death of his estranged father, unexpectedly meet in a local bakery in Montreal’s Mile End district. What starts as an innocent friendship becomes more serious as the two wayward strangers find comfort in one another. As Felix opens Meira’s eyes to the world outside of her tight-knit Orthodox community, her desire for change becomes harder for her to ignore, ultimately forcing her to choose: remain in the life that she knows or give it all up to be with Félix. Giroux’s film is a poignant and touching tale of self-discovery set against the backdrops of Montreal, Brooklyn, and Venice, Italy.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
106
Language
French,
Hebrew,
English
Director
François Delisle
Writer(s)
François Delisle
Cast
Martin Dubreuil,
Hadas Yaron,
Anne-Élisabeth Bossé,
Benoît Girard,
Melissa Weisz
Awards:
Winner, Best Canadian Feature Film, Toronto International Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Stephen Rebello, Playboy Online
Set in and around the Hasidic community of Montreal, Quebec, Felix and Meira is about a young Hasidic mother (Hadas Yaron) who feels squashed by her religious community and her marriage to a controlling, devout man (Luzer Twersky). She’s so trapped, in fact, that she gets reamed when he catches her ...
Played at
Town Center 5 4.24.15 - 5.21.15
Royal 4.24.15 - 5.07.15
Playhouse 7 5.01.15 - 5.07.15
Lumiere Music Hall 5.08.15 - 5.14.15
Claremont 5 5.09.15 - 5.10.15
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