Félicité
55th New York Film Festival
September 29 - October 15, 2017
In Senegalese director Alain Gomis’s new film, a singer in a makeshift bar in Kinshasa goes in search of money for her son’s medical care after he is injured in an accident. Félicité is tough, and tender, funny and terrifying, both responsive to the moment and fixed on its heroine’s spiritual progress.
Q&As with Alain Gomis following the screenings on 10/4 and 10/5
The new film from Alain Gomis, a French director of Guinea-Bissauan and Senegalese descent, is largely set in the roughest areas of the rough city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here, a woman named Félicité (Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu) scrapes together a living as a singer in a makeshift bar (her accompanists are played by members of the Kasai Allstars band). When her son is seriously injured in an accident, she goes in search of money for his medical care and embarks on a double journey: through the punishing outer world of the city and the inner world of the soul. Félicité is tough, tender, lyrical, mysterious, funny, and terrifying, both responsive to the moment and fixed on its heroine’s spiritual progress. A Strand Releasing release. Special thanks to uniFrance.
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