Felicia's Journey

Joe Hilditch (Bob Hoskins) is an eccentric manager of a catering company. Felicia (Elaine Cassidy) is a desperate young lady from Ireland looking for her boy friend who left her to go to London.

Quote. 'The richest, most provocative serial killer movie in cinema history.

I'm not entirely sure that I have Felicia's Journey entirely figured out, but I liked it. Egoyan's method is hard to summarize, but one source I found put it in a way that makes enough sense when considering the bulk of Egoyan's work, He seems drawn to the notion of 'self fulfilment through intimacy'.

Fiercely compelling tale of two lost people colliding.It can be hard to judge the tone of these kind of movies well; they can often be heavy handed and sickly or else painfully bland but this pulls it off with a dark yet poignant power that will suit those in a horror mood though it would be misleading to call this a horror.

Mild-mannered Joe Hildich lives in the past. Living alone in an older English house with many rooms, he often reminiscences (unhappily) about his earlier years.

A middle-aged man whose mother was a TV chef works for a catering company but leads a secret life as a serial killer. There should be a law requiring Great Britain to add subtitles to any film with Hoskins before it can be exported to the unsuspecting masses expecting the spoken language to be English.

This movie is rare. Its extremely simple told.

One gets the very clear impression, from his films, that Mr Egoyan did not have the most satisfactory of childhoods. Well, that's a shame for him, but I guess a bonus for us because we get to see the results of him exploring the themes through film.

I think I saw a trailer for this film, and I wondered what it was about, and since it was four stars from the critics I thought I'd give it a go. Basically middle-aged catering manager Joe Hilditch (Bob Hoskins) spends all his time studying tapes of eccentric French TV chef Gala (Arsinée Khanjian), and following her recipes.