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movie review - Felicia's Journey

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is Atom Egoyan's latest movie. It revolves around a pregnant young woman from Ireland, who's searching for her boyfriend. He's told her he's left for England to work in a lawnmower plant. In reality, he's joined the British army (something he can't have them knowing, back home).

Her search lands her in the clutches of Hoskins's ageing bachelor, a chef who watches tapes of his late mother's cooking show, and who seems to have been collecting and dispatching young women with his beat up little car.

The plot unwinds slowly, as Hoskins's derangement becomes more clear, and the girl's situation becomes more desperate. Egoyan manages to focus more on the story telling than the characterisations (unlike in his earlier flicks), and just seems to keep getting better.

Recommended.