Félix And Meira
Oscilloscope Pictures | Release Date: April 17, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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83
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerApr 24, 2015
It’s always gratifying to see a movie in which an ostensibly closed-off community is depicted humanely rather than voyeuristically. Read full review
83
The PlaylistKimber MyersApr 22, 2015
Giroux’s film is a quietly moving drama that can be a little too quiet and slow at times, but it deserves credit for never jumping into melodrama. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnApr 15, 2015
Felix and Meira can only speak in vagaries about their feelings. At times they come across like underwritten archetypes, but the superficial aspects of their scenario are elevated by a pair of deeply empathetic performances. Giroux excels at implying his characters' internal processes. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshApr 23, 2015
Co-writer and director Maxime Giroux's Felix and Meira is an unusual love story that, though shrouded in chill and shadow, has moments of true loveliness. Read full review
80
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisApr 16, 2015
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. Read full review
80
Time OutDavid EhrlichApr 15, 2015
A somber romance that’s as much about the cultural confluence of city life as it is about the unlikely couple who manage to find each other in it, Maxime Giroux’s Félix and Meira captures the dislocating loneliness of "Lost in Translation" without leaving its characters’ native Montreal. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMay 21, 2015
That we almost don’t question the plausibility of this oddest of odd couples is a tribute to the sensitive direction of French Canadian filmmaker Maxime Giroux, who wrote the relatable yet keenly observant script with Alexandre Laferrière. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMay 14, 2015
In the context of confounded expectations, director Maxime Giroux may have intended the what’s-next ending to be ironic. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMay 1, 2015
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. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleLeba HertzApr 30, 2015
Félix and Meira appears to be a simple movie about fitting in, acceptance and sacrifice. Yet it’s so elegant and poses so many sides that it’s actually a very complex film with very complex characters. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyJoe McGovernApr 23, 2015
Quebecois director Maxime Giroux mistakes long, wordless scenes of characters gazing at each other for tenderness, but he imaginatively uses gospel music as the forbidden food of love. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 1, 2015
Giroux's refusal to pass judgment on his characters prevents us from doing so, and the film is much more powerful for it. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijApr 16, 2015
Like the director’s previous feature, Jo for Jonathan, this is a minutely observed story of great modesty that thrives on transformations so tiny, the film deserves to be seen on the big screen. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeApr 16, 2015
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. Read full review
70
The DissolveScott TobiasApr 15, 2015
Photographed in muted interiors and under perpetually cloudy skies, Félix And Meira has the somber tone of a romance couched in painful sacrifice, but there’s also sweetness and joy in Meira slowly emerging from her shell. Read full review
70
Village VoiceSerena DonadoniApr 14, 2015
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. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloApr 15, 2015
Félix & Meira eventually proves to have more in common with "Fill The Void," and with Burshtein’s effort to depict Orthodox Judaism as more than just a women’s prison, than it had appeared. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 28, 2015
Even in the city’s most crowded place, Giroux makes his lovers seem like the only couple on Earth. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJordan HoffmanApr 16, 2015
Felix and Meira is tender and sad, and wonderfully shot in snowy Quebec, but ultimately fails to connect. It’s such a gentle whisper of a film, it’s hard to hear what it wants to say. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 5, 2015
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!” Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiApr 17, 2015
It tells a not-especially-interesting story about a not-especially-interesting couple from two different worlds that goes on and on before reaching its not-especially-interesting conclusion. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaApr 13, 2015
Maxime Giroux's sharp filmmaking instincts aren't always supported by similarly acute dramatic instincts. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisMay 27, 2015
That’s the problem with this well-meaning but ultimately hollow film romance: You don’t see it; you don’t get it. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle SmithApr 15, 2015
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. Read full review
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