{"id":46,"date":"2019-12-28T17:02:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T22:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/?p=46"},"modified":"2019-12-28T17:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T22:20:50","slug":"felicite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/2019\/12\/28\/felicite\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e9licit\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 19, 6:30 pm \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taylor Hall 203 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">F\u00e9licit\u00e9<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \/ 2017 \/ Alain Gomis \/ 129 min<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/faculty\/pacelerier\/\">Patricia Pia-C\u00e9l\u00e9rier<\/a> (French, Vassar College)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Respondent:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/faculty\/afent\/\">Ashley Fent<\/a> (Earth Science and Geography, Vassar College)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ttgB59zFNg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>F\u00e9licit\u00e9 is a nightclub singer in a little bar in Kinshasa who lives alone\u00a0with her teenage son Samo. When Samo severely injures himself in a\u00a0motorcycle accident, F\u00e9licit\u00e9 must find a way to raise the money to pay\u00a0for an operation or allow her son\u2019s leg to be amputated. The originality\u00a0and power of French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis\u2019s fourth feature\u00a0lies in the way it transcends this simple against-the-clock narrative,\u00a0the kind of story that has driven films of social realism from <em>Bicycle<\/em>\u00a0<em>Thieves<\/em> to the Dardenne brothers, to create a shifting, complex portrait\u00a0of the struggles, joys, and imagination of a modern-day heroine\u2014and\u00a0by extension, of the city she lives in. Filming in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country previously unfamiliar to him, Gomis confirms\u00a0the tremendous promise of his earlier films, walking a porous line\u00a0between dream and waking life, magic and bureaucracy, observation\u00a0and fantasy, that at its best suggests a new cinematic language. Alive\u00a0with the diverse sounds of various Kinshasa musicians, <em>F\u00e9licit\u00e9<\/em> is an\u00a0engrossing, deep dive into the days and, especially, nights of a city by\u00a0turns nightmarish and surprisingly radiant.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This Tourn\u00e9es Film Festival is made possible with the support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cultural Services of the French Embassy<\/a> in the U.S., the Centre National du Cin\u00e9ma et de l\u2019Image Anim\u00e9e (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation and Highbrow Entertainment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The festival is cosponsored by the Department of Film, the Women\u2019s Studies Program, the Dean of Faculty and the VSA French Club.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, 2020<br \/>\nScreening: 6.30 pm<br \/>\nPatricia-Pia C\u00e9l\u00e9rier (Vassar)<br \/>\nAshley Fent (Vassar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184789],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}