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Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #193. Maxime Giroux’s Félix et Meira

Published on February 3, 2014

Félix et Meira

Director: Maxime Giroux
Writer: Maxime Giroux, Alex Laferrière
Producer: Metafilms’ Sylvain Corbeil and Nancy Grant
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Martin Dubreuil, Hadas Yaron

His skillset was in full display in last year’s moody, tonally twisted short La tête en bas. Among Quebec’s most talented auteurs (and perhaps best kept secret), Maxime Giroux (Demain and Jo pour Jonathan) moves back into feature film terrain with Felix and Meira – the tale of how opposites attract and is born takes place in Montreal’s historic Mile-End district but pushes globally into such backdrops as Venice and NYC.

Gist: Montreal, 2013. Félix is a penniless, eccentric francophone. Meira is a married Hasidic Jewish and mother of one child. They fall madly in love; an impossible love.

Release Date: Filmed over the holidays, this could make a splash in Cannes, Locarno or Venice with additional play at TIFF.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include 1976 (Manuela Martelli), Godland (Hlynur Pálmason), Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen).