The Fairy (PG) 93 mins ***
As in their 2008 oddity Rumba, Francophone clowns Abel, Gordon
and Romy here mix Tati-esque sight gags, physical theatre and divisive, Boosh-like whimsy: it’s the kind of film
that delights in sending its principals – Abel’s loser hotel receptionist and
Gordon’s eponymous barefooted kook – to the seabed to cavort with carrier-bag
jellyfish. Juggling random motifs (scooters, lost dogs, the number 57), this threesome
are content with sustained dottiness, where Tati shaped his skits into a far
grander vision. Still, it’s meticulously slight: every set-up – whether
life-threatening ketchup bottles or sausage-snatching migrants – yields its own
minor rewards.
The Fairy opens in selected cinemas from today.
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