What did you think of 'Felicia's Journey'?

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I watched this on television last night and for an hour was as entranced by a film as I've been in a long time, though it fell apart at the end. There were all sorts of oddities going on in the frames and a swizzled reality that was reality all the same. Each new development made me reconsider all the things I'd seen before. Like when I first saw Hilditch eating a giant meal on his own while looking through opera glasses through a doorway at a video of his mother doing a cooking programme, I thought 'how charming'. How could I ever have thought that?

― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I missed the start of it but my husband was watching it. I was reading the paper and not paying attention at all, but everytime I looked up I wished I'd been watching it . I did watch maybe the last three quarters of an hour, but would have liked to have seen it all. Visually it was fantastic, and I liked what I gained of the narrative as well, though I feel by missing the lion's share of it I missed a lot of what made it different. I saw enough to make me want to see it properly though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, but Bob Hoskins' Birmingham accent sucked :(

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I dug it until the religious people showed up randomly. From about then on it felt rather contrived. But the first two thirds were very involving.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, the minute the religious people turned up, the film fizzed out like a lightbulb in water.

Hoskins' accent was rubbish, but I accepted it, given his parenthood, as a sort of French Brummie.

I loved that moment when he furtively tasted the grapes, though.

― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Parentage, I should say.

― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

This is Atom Egoyan's most disappointing film but it's still pretty good.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked it when I saw it at the pictures. Can't remember the religious people.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

What's her name? She's the most beautiful girl EVAH. She's in Disco Pigs too.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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