The Adventures Of Felix

Felix (Sami Bouajila) may be gay, HIV+ and of Arab descent, but what's refreshing about French directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's winning, character-driven road movie is that that's simply who Felix is; it's not necessarily what the movie's about. Recently laid off from his job as a sailor on an English Channel ferry, Felix decides to "go with the flow." He applies for unemployment and sets about tying up the loose ends of his life, and while putting his late mother's apartment in order finds a strongbox containing some cash, a few old photographs and a packet of letters postmarked "Marseilles." They're from the father Felix has never met: He abandone...