2018 · drama · comedy
I Feel Good
Directed by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern1h 43m2018
He’s lived for too long off his parents. It’s time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. One-time gigolo and a borderline bum, he knows what he wants – to become rich and famous. He even has a business plan: tourism combined with cheap plastic surgery. Jacques moves in with his older sister, Monique, who manages an Emmaus village in the south west of France. And before long, the smooth-talking chancer has convinced a group of workers to pool their meagre funds and set out on a trip to a clinic in Bulgaria, where all their dreams of a brighter and more beautiful future will all come true. If only…
Our read: I Feel Good (2018) reads as a warm, steady, inventive drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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