In Mile End, Montreal, a Hasidic Jewish woman named Meira lives a repressed life, married to Shulem, who does not allow her to listen to secular music.

She avoids eye contact with him, and becomes enraged when, while they are playing Ping-Pong, Félix's sister Caroline unexpectedly arrives and sees her.

Felix and Meira was director Maxime Giroux's third full-length film, and he said that in writing and directing it, he learned more about his home of Montreal.

[2] While meeting and discussing possible stories with co-writer Alexandre Laferrière at cafes, Giroux said: "We'd see these women and men walking by, and we just didn't know anything about them.

"[1] It was challenging to cast Yiddish-speaking actors in Montreal, but in New York, several people pointed Giroux to Luzer Twersky, who they said would be interested.

The website's critical consensus states: "Félix & Meira uses its simple structure and slight story as the setup for a sensitive, well-acted romance whose unusual specifics belie universal truths".

[11] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generaly favourable reviews".

[12] It was included in the list of "Canada's Top Ten" feature films of 2014, selected by a panel of film-makers and industry professionals organized by TIFF.

[13][14] Marc-André Lussier [fr] wrote in La Presse that the film was not sensational, but subtle, sensitive, and highly interesting.