SummaryEach 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 c... Read More
Directed By:Maxime Giroux
Written By:Maxime Giroux, Alexandre Laferrière
Félix And Meira
Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
75% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
21% Mixed
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4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Apr 24, 2015
83
It’s always gratifying to see a movie in which an ostensibly closed-off community is depicted humanely rather than voyeuristically.
Apr 16, 2015
80
Tiny advances in seduction — like a direct gaze, or the eventual removal of that wig — assume the power of full-on sexual collisions, and Ms. Yaron, with her restlessly darting eyes, easily conveys Meira’s sensual deprivation.
May 1, 2015
75
This quiet, aching film - punctuated by dead-on music choices, a blues song, reggae, the requisite Leonard Cohen - doesn't answer those questions. It's enough to raise them.
Apr 16, 2015
70
Though set in present-day Montreal, this tender romance unfolds like an episode from another century, paying the sort of careful attention to social boundaries you’d expect to find in a classic forbidden-love novel.
Apr 14, 2015
70
The restrained performances of Dubreuil and Yaron (Fill the Void) gradually reveal the flaws and strengths of this fragile couple, while Twersky is quietly devastating as an abandoned husband who fully understands devotion and sacrifice.
May 5, 2015
50
Giroux makes the possible love affair so mild-mannered that there aren’t a lot of sparks when these cultures clash, just a “You’re strange, WEIRD,” vs. “I’m not strange. YOU are!”
Apr 15, 2015
38
Tender, heartfelt and exquisitely dull, the drama Félix and Meira illustrates the perils of trying to tell an emotional love story with meaningful stares and long pauses.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
83% Positive
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17% Negative
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1 Rating
Aug 15, 2017
7
Extremely slow paced but filled with a strong, heartfelt sense of humanity and it's inherent search for belonging and community. The extras at the end of the DVD were particularly illuminating and highlighted several of the real life actors who acted out their roles from personal experience. On a whole it is an unusually quiet but deeply emotive film.
Production Company:
- Metafilms
- Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit
- Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC)
- Téléfilm Canada
Release Date:Apr 17, 2015
Duration:1 h 45 m
Rating:R
Awards
Le Gala Quebec Cinema
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 5 Nominations
Whistler Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
