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| distributor = Icon Film Distribution (United Kingdom)<ref>{{cite web|title=Felicia's Journey (1999)|website=[[BBFC]]|access-date=29 October 2021|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/felicias-journey-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmdixmji}}</ref><br>Alliance Atlantis Releasing (Canada)<ref>{{cite web|title=Felicia's Journey (1998)|website=[[Library and Archives Canada]]|access-date=29 October 2021|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=3058&DotsIdNumber=}}</ref> |
| distributor = Icon Film Distribution (United Kingdom)<ref>{{cite web|title=Felicia's Journey (1999)|website=[[BBFC]]|access-date=29 October 2021|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/felicias-journey-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmdixmji}}</ref><br>Alliance Atlantis Releasing (Canada)<ref>{{cite web|title=Felicia's Journey (1998)|website=[[Library and Archives Canada]]|access-date=29 October 2021|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=3058&DotsIdNumber=}}</ref> |
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| released = {{Film date|df=y|1999|10|8|UK|1999|11|12|U.S.}} |
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| runtime = 116 minutes |
| runtime = 116 minutes |
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| country = United Kingdom<br>Canada |
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| language = {{Unbulleted list| English | French |
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'''''Felicia's Journey''''' is a 1999 |
'''''Felicia's Journey''''' is a 1999 [[psychological thriller]] film written and directed by [[Atom Egoyan]] and starring [[Elaine Cassidy]] and [[Bob Hoskins]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Felicia's Journey (1999)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8135a5e2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322094938/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8135a5e2|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 March 2018|access-date=2021-08-12|website=BFI|language=en}}</ref> It is based on the prize-winning 1994 [[Felicia's Journey|novel of the same name]] by [[William Trevor]]. It was entered into the [[1999 Cannes Film Festival]] and won four [[20th Genie Awards|Genie Awards]], including [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]. |
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== Plot == |
== Plot == |
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Felicia is |
Felicia is an Irish teenager whose boyfriend, Johnny, has left to join the [[British Army]] after impregnating her. Taking a ferry to England, she begins a hopeless search for the lawnmower factory in [[Birmingham]] where she believes Johnny now works. Instead, she encounters Joseph Hilditch, a catering manager at a factory who is also the son of an eccentric TV chef of decades past. Hilditch regularly watches the old programmes of his presumably-deceased mother while he cooks her recipes and collects material about her. He offers to help Felicia find Johnny; however, his motives for doing so are initially unclear, and it is subsequently suggested through flashback sequences that he has befriended but then turned on vulnerable young women in the past. |
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Hilditch offers to drive Felicia to what he suggests is the factory she is looking for, which is on the way to the hospital where the unmarried Hilditch claims he is going to visit his wife. Felicia fails to find Johnny at the factory; while she is out of the car, Hilditch goes through her bags and steals her money. Subsequently, Felicia comes across a Jamaican Christian |
Hilditch offers to drive Felicia to what he suggests is the factory she is looking for, which is on the way to the hospital where the unmarried Hilditch claims he is going to visit his wife. Felicia fails to find Johnny at the factory; while she is out of the car, Hilditch goes through her bags and steals her money. Subsequently, Felicia comes across a Jamaican Christian pedlar who offers Felicia a free overnight stay at a church [[hostel]]. While staying at the hostel, Felicia discovers that her money has gone and, after appearing to accuse others at the home of stealing the money, goes to Hilditch's house. |
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Meanwhile, Hilditch has traced Johnny to the [[barracks]] where he is serving, but does not disclose this to Felicia. He tells her that his wife has died and that she suggested that Felicia [[abortion|abort]] her unborn child. After the abortion, which Hilditch pays for, he takes her back to his house and gives her an overdose of sleeping pills. As she passes out, he explains that he has 'helped' many other vulnerable girls but 'lays them to rest' when they decide it is time to leave him. |
Meanwhile, Hilditch has traced Johnny to the [[barracks]] where he is serving, but does not disclose this to Felicia. He tells her that his wife has died and that she suggested that Felicia [[abortion|abort]] her unborn child. After the abortion, which Hilditch pays for, he takes her back to his house and gives her an overdose of sleeping pills. As she passes out, he explains that he has 'helped' many other vulnerable girls but 'lays them to rest' when they decide it is time to leave him. |
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While Hilditch is digging out in his garden, the Jamaican witness and a new convert enter his yard and begin to preach. The Christian reveals that Felicia had told her about Hilditch, saying he was a kind but troubled man. Hilditch feels flashes of guilt and confesses that he did, in fact, steal from and cheat Felicia so that she would return to him. He explains that he feels lonely, and the horrified Christians leave. Upstairs in the house, Felicia awakens from her sleep and struggles down the stairs. Hilditch finds her trying to escape but allows her to leave. He later walks to his kitchen, where he hangs himself with a pair of tights. |
While Hilditch is digging out in his garden, the Jamaican witness and a new convert enter his yard and begin to preach. The Christian reveals that Felicia had told her about Hilditch, saying he was a kind but troubled man. Hilditch feels flashes of guilt and confesses that he did, in fact, steal from and cheat Felicia so that she would return to him. He explains that he feels lonely, and the horrified Christians leave. Upstairs in the house, Felicia awakens from her sleep and struggles down the stairs. Hilditch finds her trying to escape but allows her to leave. He later walks to his kitchen, where he hangs himself with a pair of tights. |
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=== Critical response === |
=== Critical response === |
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''Felicia's Journey'' received positive reviews from critics |
''Felicia's Journey'' received positive reviews from critics. The film holds {{a or an|{{RT data|score}}}} rating on [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on {{RT data|count}} reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/felicias_journey|title=Felicia's Journey|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film holds a [[weighted average]] score of 72 out of 100 based on 34 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Felicia's Journey Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/felicias-journey |access-date=21 June 2023 |website=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[Fandom, Inc.]]}}</ref> |
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''[[The Observer]]'' critic Philip French noted it was the first "big screen" film set in Birmingham that he had ever seen.<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news |last1=French |first1=Phillip |title=Felicia's Journey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/oct/10/philipfrench |access-date=16 October 2019 |work=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News & Media Limited |date=10 Oct 1999}}</ref> |
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[[Empire (film magazine)|''Empire magazine'']] critic Trevor Lewis noted it was "Beautiful, haunting, and chillingly powerful, this displays the usual Egoyan strengths, but suffers a little from his stylistic flourishes."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Felicia's Journey|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/felicia-journey-review/|access-date=2021-08-12|website=Empire}}</ref> |
[[Empire (film magazine)|''Empire magazine'']] critic Trevor Lewis noted it was "Beautiful, haunting, and chillingly powerful, this displays the usual Egoyan strengths, but suffers a little from his stylistic flourishes."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Felicia's Journey|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/felicia-journey-review/|access-date=2021-08-12|website=Empire}}</ref> |
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===Accolades=== |
===Accolades=== |
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The film competed for the [[Palme d'Or]] at the [[1999 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5318/year/1999.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Felicia's Journey |access-date=4 October 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822132540/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5318/year/1999.html |archive-date=22 August 2011 }}</ref> It was nominated for 10 [[20th Genie Awards|Genie Awards]] following the [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television]]'s decision to revise rules allowing films with only a minority of Canadian involvement in production to compete, |
The film competed for the [[Palme d'Or]] at the [[1999 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5318/year/1999.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Felicia's Journey |access-date=4 October 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822132540/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5318/year/1999.html |archive-date=22 August 2011 }}</ref> It was nominated for 10 [[20th Genie Awards|Genie Awards]] following the [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television]]'s decision to revise rules allowing films with only a minority of Canadian involvement in production to compete, which also allowed ''[[Sunshine (1999 film)|Sunshine]]'' to be nominated for 14.<ref name="Kelly"/> |
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| rowspan="10" | [[20th Genie Awards|2000]] |
| rowspan="10" | [[20th Genie Awards|30 January 2000]] |
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| [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture|Best Motion Picture]] |
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| [[Bruce Davey]] |
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| [[Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture|Best Actress – Motion Picture, Drama]] |
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| Elaine Cassidy |
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!scope="row" | [[Toronto Film Critics Association]] |
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| [[Rogers Best Canadian Film Award|Best Canadian Film]] |
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| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://torontofilmcritics.com/past-award-winners/ |title=Past Award Winners |publisher=[[Toronto Film Critics Association]] |access-date=13 June 2020 }}</ref> |
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://torontofilmcritics.com/past-award-winners/ |title=Past Award Winners |date=29 May 2014 |publisher=[[Toronto Film Critics Association]] |access-date=13 June 2020 }}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 19:48, 9 November 2024
Felicia's Journey | |
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Directed by | Atom Egoyan |
Written by | Atom Egoyan |
Based on | Felicia's Journey by William Trevor |
Produced by | Bruce Davey |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
Edited by | Susan Shipton |
Music by | Mychael Danna |
Production companies | Alliance Atlantis Pictures Icon Productions Icon Entertainment International Marquis Films Ltd. The Movie Network Screenventures XLIII |
Distributed by | Icon Film Distribution (United Kingdom)[1] Alliance Atlantis Releasing (Canada)[2] |
Release dates |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom Canada |
Languages |
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Box office | $824,295 |
Felicia's Journey is a 1999 psychological thriller film written and directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins.[3] It is based on the prize-winning 1994 novel of the same name by William Trevor. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and won four Genie Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay.
Plot
[edit]Felicia is an Irish teenager whose boyfriend, Johnny, has left to join the British Army after impregnating her. Taking a ferry to England, she begins a hopeless search for the lawnmower factory in Birmingham where she believes Johnny now works. Instead, she encounters Joseph Hilditch, a catering manager at a factory who is also the son of an eccentric TV chef of decades past. Hilditch regularly watches the old programmes of his presumably-deceased mother while he cooks her recipes and collects material about her. He offers to help Felicia find Johnny; however, his motives for doing so are initially unclear, and it is subsequently suggested through flashback sequences that he has befriended but then turned on vulnerable young women in the past.
Hilditch offers to drive Felicia to what he suggests is the factory she is looking for, which is on the way to the hospital where the unmarried Hilditch claims he is going to visit his wife. Felicia fails to find Johnny at the factory; while she is out of the car, Hilditch goes through her bags and steals her money. Subsequently, Felicia comes across a Jamaican Christian pedlar who offers Felicia a free overnight stay at a church hostel. While staying at the hostel, Felicia discovers that her money has gone and, after appearing to accuse others at the home of stealing the money, goes to Hilditch's house.
Meanwhile, Hilditch has traced Johnny to the barracks where he is serving, but does not disclose this to Felicia. He tells her that his wife has died and that she suggested that Felicia abort her unborn child. After the abortion, which Hilditch pays for, he takes her back to his house and gives her an overdose of sleeping pills. As she passes out, he explains that he has 'helped' many other vulnerable girls but 'lays them to rest' when they decide it is time to leave him.
While Hilditch is digging out in his garden, the Jamaican witness and a new convert enter his yard and begin to preach. The Christian reveals that Felicia had told her about Hilditch, saying he was a kind but troubled man. Hilditch feels flashes of guilt and confesses that he did, in fact, steal from and cheat Felicia so that she would return to him. He explains that he feels lonely, and the horrified Christians leave. Upstairs in the house, Felicia awakens from her sleep and struggles down the stairs. Hilditch finds her trying to escape but allows her to leave. He later walks to his kitchen, where he hangs himself with a pair of tights.
Cast
[edit]- Bob Hoskins – Joe Hilditch
- Arsinée Khanjian – Gala
- Elaine Cassidy – Felicia
- Sheila Reid – Iris
- Nizwar Karanj – Sidney
- Ali Yassine – Customs Officer
- Peter McDonald – Johnny Lysaght
- Kriss Dosanjh – Salesman
- Gerard McSorley – Felicia's Father
- Marie Stafford – Felicia's Great Grandmother (as Máire Stafford)
Release
[edit]Felicia's Journey was released on 8 October 1999 in the United Kingdom to "critical acclaim" according to the British Council. The film was previewed as closing film of the New York Film Festival on 10 October 1999 before being released on 12 November 1999 in the United States.[4][5]
Reception
[edit]Critical response
[edit]Felicia's Journey received positive reviews from critics. The film holds an 88% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 41 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10.[6] On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on 34 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[7]
The Observer critic Philip French noted it was the first "big screen" film set in Birmingham that he had ever seen.[8]
Empire magazine critic Trevor Lewis noted it was "Beautiful, haunting, and chillingly powerful, this displays the usual Egoyan strengths, but suffers a little from his stylistic flourishes."[9]
The New York Times film critic Stephen Holden noted Felicia's Journey was "restricted by its genre and by the limitations of its two main characters" but added that "Visually, and in its soundtrack of overlapping voices, the film sustains a mood of heightened consciousness, implying a world of surreal, only half-discernible connections in which weather, music, landscape, media and the chance encounters of strangers all suggest an enticing if slightly ominous sense of a grand design."[5]
Writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic Roger Ebert described it as having "Hitchcockian humor" and noted "You leave Felicia's Journey appreciating it. A week later, you're astounded by it."[10]
Accolades
[edit]The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.[11] It was nominated for 10 Genie Awards following the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's decision to revise rules allowing films with only a minority of Canadian involvement in production to compete, which also allowed Sunshine to be nominated for 14.[12]
Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref(s) |
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Genie Awards | 30 January 2000 | Best Motion Picture | Bruce Davey | Nominated | [12][13] |
Best Direction | Atom Egoyan | Nominated | |||
Best Actor | Bob Hoskins | Won | |||
Best Actress | Elaine Cassidy | Nominated | |||
Best Adapted Screenplay | Atom Egoyan | Won | |||
Best Cinematography | Paul Sarossy | Won | |||
Best Costume Design | Sandy Powell | Nominated | |||
Best Score | Mychael Danna | Won | |||
Best Sound | Daniel Pellerin, Keith Elliott, Peter Kelly and Brian Simmons | Nominated | |||
Best Sound Editing | Steve Munro, Sue Conley, Andy Malcolm, Tim Roberts and David Drainie Taylor | Nominated | |||
Satellite Awards | 16 January 2000 | Best Actress – Motion Picture, Drama | Elaine Cassidy | Nominated | [14] |
Toronto Film Critics Association | 16 December 1999 | Best Canadian Film | Runner-up | [15] |
References
[edit]- ^ "Felicia's Journey (1999)". BBFC. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
- ^ "Felicia's Journey (1998)". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
- ^ "Felicia's Journey (1999)". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 March 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- ^ "British Council Film: Felicia's Journey". film-directory.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- ^ a b "'Felicia's Journey': A Surreal and Subtle Thriller". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- ^ "Felicia's Journey". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ "Felicia's Journey Reviews". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ French, Phillip (10 October 1999). "Felicia's Journey". The Guardian. Guardian News & Media Limited. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Felicia's Journey". Empire. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "Felicia's Journey movie review (1999) | Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com/. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Felicia's Journey". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
- ^ a b Kelly, Brendan (13 December 1999). "Genies bottle 'Sunshine,' 'Journey' for kudo noms". Variety. Vol. 377, no. 5. p. 8.
- ^ "Sunshine, Felicia's Journey top Genie Awards". CBC News. 31 January 2000. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ^ "Felicia's Journey". International Press Academy. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- ^ "Past Award Winners". Toronto Film Critics Association. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
External links
[edit]- 1999 films
- 1999 psychological thriller films
- Artisan Entertainment films
- British thriller films
- Canadian psychological thriller films
- 1990s English-language films
- English-language Canadian films
- Films based on works by William Trevor
- Films directed by Atom Egoyan
- Films produced by Bruce Davey
- Films scored by Mychael Danna
- Films set in Birmingham, West Midlands
- 1990s French-language films
- Icon Productions films
- Canadian serial killer films
- British serial killer films
- 1990s serial killer films
- 1999 drama films
- 1999 multilingual films
- British multilingual films
- Canadian multilingual films
- 1990s Canadian films
- 1990s British films
- English-language crime films
- French-language Canadian films
- English-language thriller films