This is the first film ever selected as a Senegalese entry for the Best Foreign language film after winning six awards at the Africa Movie Academy (the most ever) and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. It stars Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu in the title role, a real life singer in Senegal "who 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" so says Justin Chang in the Los Angeles Times, who also points out the importance of music in the film: "so it's fitting that music should become the movie's emotional filigree, ranging from the band's jubilant jam sessions to the heart-stopping occasional interludes featuring the Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra, performing their renditions of Arvo Pärt in an enormous warehouse space. The mix of improvisation and classicism goes beyond mere eclecticism. It reflects the movie's own generous embrace of life in its endless capacity for joy, sorrow and awe". Sounds too good to miss!
Monday, February 05, 2018
Félicité - Sunday 11th February 5pm
We are off to Africa this Sunday at 5.00 for the Senegalese Félicité... "a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident. To save him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of Kinshasa - a world of music and dreams - where she'll cross paths with Tabu..." – Rotten Tomatoes.
This is the first film ever selected as a Senegalese entry for the Best Foreign language film after winning six awards at the Africa Movie Academy (the most ever) and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. It stars Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu in the title role, a real life singer in Senegal "who 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" so says Justin Chang in the Los Angeles Times, who also points out the importance of music in the film: "so it's fitting that music should become the movie's emotional filigree, ranging from the band's jubilant jam sessions to the heart-stopping occasional interludes featuring the Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra, performing their renditions of Arvo Pärt in an enormous warehouse space. The mix of improvisation and classicism goes beyond mere eclecticism. It reflects the movie's own generous embrace of life in its endless capacity for joy, sorrow and awe". Sounds too good to miss!
This is the first film ever selected as a Senegalese entry for the Best Foreign language film after winning six awards at the Africa Movie Academy (the most ever) and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. It stars Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu in the title role, a real life singer in Senegal "who 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" so says Justin Chang in the Los Angeles Times, who also points out the importance of music in the film: "so it's fitting that music should become the movie's emotional filigree, ranging from the band's jubilant jam sessions to the heart-stopping occasional interludes featuring the Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra, performing their renditions of Arvo Pärt in an enormous warehouse space. The mix of improvisation and classicism goes beyond mere eclecticism. It reflects the movie's own generous embrace of life in its endless capacity for joy, sorrow and awe". Sounds too good to miss!
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