The French film La Fee, otherwise known as The Fairy, is gracing our screen next week. This Tati-inspired film is the third film from Belgium-based trio Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy following their acclaimed Iceberg and Rumba. Fans will not be disappointed with their latest offering!
The film tells the tale of a hotel clerk (Dominique Abel) and a fairy (Fiona Gordon). He works the night desk in a grubby hotel; she turns up wanting a room and saying she is a fairy and will grant him three wishes during the course of the night. This charmingly off-kilter adventure sees the hotel clerk searching all over Le Havre for the fairy who made two of his three wishes come true before disappearing. Once found, their ensuing adventure defies logic as they bother local authorities, perform hilariously low-budget dance routines and get up to various other tricks along the way.
After Aki Kaurismäki's colourful fairytale Le Havre, here is another tale set in the same port town (and also featuring African refugees, coincidentally). This is a film which certainly creates its own world - you have to see it to believe it!
* The Fairy remains infectiously funny throughout* Total Film
*The Belgo-Canadian-French trio, who specialize in pantomime and circus-style theatrics, have a clownlike knack for finding humor in the everyday.* Variety
Catch the trailer below:
The Fairy is screening on: Tuesday 7th at 2pm & 7.45pm, Wednesday 8th at 7.45pm and Thursday 9th at 7.45pm
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