Bruno Merle's French comedy follows an eleven-year-old girl swept along by parents who treat rules as optional and honesty as negotiable.
What is Felicita about?
Tommy is eleven, and her school calendar keeps colliding with her family's chaos. Her father has just gotten out of jail and vows this term she will actually make it to her first day of class, a promise that unravels almost immediately. A stolen sports car pulls the trip off course, her mother goes missing partway through, and an astronaut turns up in the middle of it all, adding one more strange detail to a road trip that never settles into anything resembling routine. Felicita builds its comedy out of a child's patience running against her parents' impulses, following the trio, and eventually more than the trio, across France as each new detour makes the simple goal of a first school day feel further away.
About the cast
Pio Marmaï and Camille Rutherford play Tommy's parents, with Rita Merle as Tommy herself. Musician and actor Orelsan appears in the cast alongside Lulubelle Gobron-Amoti, Johanne Thibaut, Yvon Connan and Charles Catel, rounding out a small ensemble built for a film that spends most of its runtime on the road.
Context & significance
Director Bruno Merle sets his comedy against ordinary French towns and highways rather than any single city, letting the family's unpredictable route stand in for their unpredictable home life. At a lean eighty-one minutes, the film keeps its episodic structure tight, moving from one detour to the next without lingering. It arrived in 2020 as part of a wave of European family comedies built around a child narrator watching adult behavior from just below eye level, a perspective that shapes both its humor and its warmth.
Watching Felicita on Ktime
Felicita streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, and watching it only requires a K-Time account login rather than any separate purchase. The platform's Farsi-language interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking households to queue up a lighter, family-adjacent comedy without hunting through menus in another language.