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The Fairy(La fée)

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France, Belgium · 2011
Rated PG · 1h 33m
Director Bruno Romy
Starring Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz, Fiona Gordon
Genre Comedy, Drama

Each night passes uneventfully for Dom, a clerk who works night shifts at a small hotel near Le Havre — until one night, a fairy arrives with three wishes to grant. She disappears after making two of his wishes come true, leaving the lovestruck Dom to find her himself in this colorful and near-silent comedy.

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Village Voice by

While every scene is art-directed with zest and innovatively staged, The Fairy rarely inspires outright laughter. At least it respects its influences more than does "The Artist."

63

Slant Magazine by Bill Weber

Re-employing the tools of Jacques Tati and Jerry Lewis, this pleasant fable reclaims artful slapstick with a bliss that's hard to deny.

60

Time Out by David Fear

Deadpan clownishness is The Fairy's raison d'être and its superior mode; when the lovey-doveyness turns cloying and the atrophied message-mongering creeps in, you wish the threesome knew when to keep their traps shut.

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NPR by Mark Jenkins

Deeply silly in a classic mode, The Fairy continues the French new wave of near-silent cinema.

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New York Post by V.A. Musetto

This is the third feature by the three gifted stars, who deftly pull off hilarious, nearly wordless slapstick routines reminiscent of Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton and Jerry Lewis.

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