The Fairy

Original title: “La fée”
France/Belgium  –  Year: 2011  –  Running time: 93 mins

CFC Member feedback: Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.2 / 5 from 40 responses)

  • ‘Excellent’: 18 votes
  • ‘Very good’: 15 votes
  • ‘Good’: 5 votes
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 1 vote
  • ‘Poor’: 1 vote

Social misfit Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night a woman called Fiona arrives with no luggage and no shoes and tells
Dom she is a fairy, granting him three wishes. It’s love at first sight. Two wishes are granted before Fiona disappears and Dom goes in search of her. This anarchic, enchanting, Keystone-like comedy is full of visual jokes that hark back to Chaplin, Keaton and, notably, Jacques Tati.

Directors: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Rumba (2008) / L’iceberg (2005)

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