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Felicia's Journey

1999, Movie, R, 116 mins

Felicia's Journey: Review

FELICIA'S JOURNEY
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A beautifully wrought adaptation of William Trevor's haunting novel. Joseph Hilditch (Bob Hoskins) lives a tidy life all alone in the cozy, Birmingham house he once shared with his late mother (Arsinee Khanjian), the hostess of a popular 1950s cooking show. Each night, Hilditch watches her on the VCR, cooking along to old episodes of her show as he prepares complicated, multi-course meals for no one but himself. He keeps these videotape memories stored in a backroom, but there are other tapes among his collection, documents of a different sort of pastime. These cassettes record the final moments of the young women Hilditch picks up, then murders, in the front seat of his perfectly preserved vintage auto. Some of these women are prostitutes, others are runaways; none of them, Hilditch assumes, will be missed. One afternoon outside the factory where he works as a catering manager, Hilditch meets Felicia (Elaine Cassidy), a teenager who has left her home in Ireland to find her wayward boyfriend. Hilditch thinks he's found his next victim — another troubled soul who longs for solace — but as the lonely bachelor, haunted by his mother's casual cruelty, lures the girl closer to her death, the truth behind Felicia's journey complicates his awful plans. Newcomer Cassidy is excellent, and Hoskins gives a flawless performance; he hides Hilditch's terrible secret life behind a creepy, avuncular concern and good-nature that's chilling in its banality. Egoyan has moved well beyond the structural experimentation of his earlier films, where frissons were mainly the result of the emerging relationships among seemingly disparate characters. Here, as in his previous film, THE SWEET HEREAFTER, moments of truth have become deeper revelations about the human condition, the pulse which shatters the icy calm of the film's cool, precise surfaces. leave a comment --Ken Fox
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