Anybody else seen “The Adventures of Felix” also known as “Drôle de Félix”?

English: I have to write (well I’ve chosen to write) an essay analyzing the mythic narratives at play in the movie. Such as the whole idea of his taking the trip to what he sees as his origins (his father’s home) to meet the dad he never knew and who never wanted to know him. For this rough draft I get to do a “quick and dirty” interpretation and then point out what points I’d need to research to gain a fuller understanding of what’s at play (like looking into responses to diagnoses of HIV, responses to unemployment, more history of the Franco-Arab rapport, and I am even gonna try to read Le rose et le noir this supposedly great book on the gay rights mvmt in France). I just want someone to talk to about the movie, to bounce ideas off of and perhaps gain clarity and “agree/disagree” on some specifics with.

Français: Moi, je dois écrire un rédaction à propos de ce film et je veux mettre les éléments mythiques au centre. Par exemple, je vais analyser l’idée de voyager ou bien prendre une voyage comme une réaction à la mort d’un parent, de devenir chômeurs, à un diagnostic VIH (ou un échec du traitement du VIH), et des choses comme ça. Mais je veux parler avec quelqu’un sur mes idées en ce qui concerne l’intrigue, l’ambiguïté des questions de race et la sexualité, et les personnages et comment ils deviennent parties de sa famille choisit. Je peux vous parler en français si ça marcherait mieux ou on peut parler en anglais.

So my French professor

• told me about an international, trilingual queer studies conference in Rio, Brasil next summer
• then offered to help me work on an abstract to submit to the call for papers
• then said that she knows that WGS offers money to help pay for expenses if students are presenting work
• then she sent me information about a scholarship to take her course in film studies (in french, about gender) 
• she said she’d like to do honors for it with me and i could do work in french and english with focus on whatever I’d like to do
• my religious studies professor TORE APART my paper i turned in last wednesday and it was a sexual experience
• then he told me i should revise it and submit it to the honors colloquium and the scholarship contest for WGS (MORE MONEY FOR BEING GOOD AT PAPERSING)
• and gave me an A despite annihilating my rhetoric

So, needles to say, I’m fucking stoked like shitttttt on my academic career beginning to blossom.