I Feel Good (film)

I Feel Good is a 2018 French comedy satire of both capitalism and communism directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern.

Plot
Jacques, an ambitious man pushed from the home by his old parents, decides one fine day to become rich and famous by exploiting the vein of low cost cosmetic surgery in Eastern Europe. To develop his business plan, he takes refuge with his sister Monique, director of an Emmaus village. By dint of giving them a better future, he will eventually take a whole group of companions to a clinic in Bulgaria, to all come back more beautiful.

Cast

 * Jean Dujardin as Jacques Pora
 * Yolande Moreau as Monique Pora
 * Jean-Benoît Ugeux as Vincent

Production
Principal photography on the film began in August 2017 in Pyrénées-Atlantiques. It took place in the Emmaus village in Lescar. Other filming sessions took place in Pau, around the funiculaire and the city centre, as well as in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées). Sequences were shot in Romania at Nicolae Ceaușescu's Palace of the Parliament and in Bulgaria at the Buzludzha Monument.