A sexy and marvelous French film about a French/Arab gay man Felix who sets off on a journey in search of family with a backpack and a rainbow kite. FABULOUS! A very well done flick. Drama! Comedy! Plus Felix is gorgeous. I wish more gay filmed were filmed with this level of production and acting skills. Ooo-La-La! I think I’ll go watch it again! C’mon baby! Take that shirt of for l’il ol’ me one more time!

An extremely entertaining and sensual gay road movie. Felix (Sami Bouajila) is a gentle, carefree French-Arab living in Normandy with his lover, who, after finding himself suddenly unemployed, decides to head south to Marseilles in search of his biological father, whom he’s never met. Bidding his boyfriend adieu, Felix hits the road hitch-hiking where he meets a variety of strangers who become his new, imagined family. There’s young, frisky, and inexperienced “little brother,” (who lusts after him) hunky and liberated “cousin,” (with whom he has some hot sex in the fields), harried “sister” with a brood of kids, and wise old “grandmother”. By the time Felix reaches his destination, who will end up being his father? And does it really matter? At the film’s end Felix reunites with his lover in the sweet, gentle, sensuous and romantic film. Besides its air of whimsy and humor, The Adventures of Felix injects serious doses of realities like racism, crime and loneliness. For self-described, long-time “hysterical activists” and real-life lovers Jacques Martineau and Oliver Ducastel, that was part of the game plan.

2.35:1 Widescreen / 5.1 Surround / Subtitles / Commentary by Jacques Martineau and Oliver Ducastel / Theatrical trailers / Filmographies

2000, 95 min

A.K.A.: Drôle de Félix

Country: France

Studio: Wellspring

Cast: Sami Bouajila, Patachou, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Charly Sergue

Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau

Screenwriter: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau