A naive young Irish girl travels to England to find her boyfriend, who has gone there to find work. Unable to find him she meets a kind catering manager Joe Hilditch,(Bob Hoskins) who helps her find lodgings. They keep meeting up and he continues to help her in her search, Felicia tells him her story and that she is pregnant, he offers advice and offers to assist in getting an abortion, Felicia downbeat at not being able to find her beau, agrees. Recuperating in Hilditch'a house she doesn't realize the danger she is in. A very unusual film indeed, to the untrained eye it might seem like a period piece, as the music, clothes, cars etc would point in that direction, but it is a contemporary setting with wholesale old fashioned values. Hoskins is superb as the killer who films his victims before they die, the scenes where he relaxes by cooking to old tapes of his celebrity cook mother, gradually reveal where it all went wrong for him. Against this there are also flashbacks to Felicia's home town, where we learn of her development and her blossoming relationship is revealed along with her father's dislike of said friendship. An odd but totally intriguing film.
Review of Felicia's Journey
