Drôle de Félix
Drôle de Félix (literally meaning Comedy of Félix or Amazing Félix; also known as (The) Adventures of Felix) is a 2000 French film, a road movie written and directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. It stars Sami Bouajila as the title character.
Plot
Félix, a young gay man of Arab descent living in Dieppe, is currently unemployed and HIV positive. While cleaning out the apartment of his recent deceased mother, he discovers that the father he never knew is living in Marseilles. Félix decides to hitchhike south to meet him, promising to see his lover Daniel there five days later.
Carrying with him only a small bag, his HIV medication, and a rainbow kite, Félix takes to the road. He witnesses a racist attack and is beaten up by one of the assailants. However, he cannot bring himself to report it to the police. Later, Félix encounters a series of people who form an alternative family for him: a young gay man studying art, whom Félix teaches to draw; a lone old widow, who shelters him in her house, a handsome railroad worker, with whom he has a brief sexual encounter, a mother of three children by three different fathers, and a kind, middle aged fisherman. As he calls each of these characters "brother," "cousin," "grandmother," and the like, he gradually constructs a sort of family and new understandings of life through this odyssey, no matter whether he meets his "true" father at the end of the story.
Félix is haunted by the racist crime he witnessed, in which he learns the victim died, and in his inability to do anything about it. Stopping at a hotel, he sees the police arresting the murderer. When he arrives at Marseilles, Felix decides not to see his father and goes on a romantic holiday to Tunisia with his lover.
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External links
- Review Drôle de Félix at the Internet Movie Database
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