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Félicité is a Congolese singer who desperately needs money after her 14-year-old son Samo suffers a serious accident. She soon finds financial and emotional support from Tabu, one of the regulars in the bar where she performs.
January 18, 2018
Gomis approaches her performances with a gritty, gorgeous series of impressions.
October 27, 2017
Félicité has a lyrical spirit that worms its way to the surface even at its most directionless.
October 26, 2017
Mr. Gomis's cinematic style is spectacularly multifaceted. The camerawork and cutting often have the fleetness of a documentary, but there's nothing sloppy about them.
January 18, 2018
Think High Noon set in Kinshasa and backed by a Congolese beat.
October 24, 2017
Gomis's handheld cameras work to keep up with the actors, who seem to move with rare freedom, but he also stages some exquisite and complex flourishes ...
January 08, 2018
[Véro Tshanda] Beya is an unvarnished talent, but she holds the scenario together through the sheer force of her presence
December 29, 2017
The result is a musical and visual feast that is not world-denying, but rather world-affirming in its careful exposition of the quiet pleasures of day-to-day life, and the godly beauty to be found in the resolve of everyday people and relationships.
January 09, 2018
...the film doesn't wallow in her dire circumstances and instead celebrates the agency and beauty that exists all around her.
January 16, 2018
A neo-realist tale with a soupcon of magical realism that is totally irresistible.
December 08, 2017
In all, Felicite strikes a powerful chord, taking us into a society in which every reward feels hard won.
November 09, 2017
Beya ... 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.
October 24, 2017
The film's tonal range is formidable enough to suggest that this director may be a major talent who's now emerging from relative obscurity.
