SAT, MAY 24 / 9 pm
Directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy
2012, Belgium, 93 min
* French w/English subtitles
Forget The Artist. The homage to silent cinema is The Fairy featuring three Belgian comic masters. Abel is Dom, who works the night shift at a cheap hotel in the seaport of Le Havre. One night Fiona — barefoot and wearing a pink jogging outfit — walks in and announces she’s a fairy who can grant Dom three wishes. He chooses two — a scooter and a lifetime of free gasoline, both of which he gets — but can’t decide on the third. Dom falls hard for Fiona, despite the fact that she’s as nutty as a fruitcake. 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.
