La Fée
01/01/16 Filed in: DVD
Another French film, but one that I find extremely difficult to review. It's a combination of fantasy, love and slapstick comedy. The notes on the DVD refer to burlesque comedy and physical comedy. Do you get the gist?
Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, a couple in real life, play Dom and Fiona, having directed the film with Bruno Romey, who plays the visually challenged patron of the L'Amour Flou (Fuzzy Love) café.
Dom works in a hotel and one evening Fiona comes in and announces she's a fairy, and grants him three wishes. The first is for a scooter (he has a very unreliable bike) and the second is for petrol to keep it running. After Fiona carries out an interesting variation of the Heimlich manoeuvre on Dom, who gets the top of a tomato ketchup bottle stuck in his throat (you need to watch the film to see why), Dom falls asleep, and wakes up in the morning to find a scooter in the hotel foyer. Later Fiona gives him the key to a petrol storage tank in the nearby refinery. And so a romance is kindled.
Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, a couple in real life, play Dom and Fiona, having directed the film with Bruno Romey, who plays the visually challenged patron of the L'Amour Flou (Fuzzy Love) café.
Dom works in a hotel and one evening Fiona comes in and announces she's a fairy, and grants him three wishes. The first is for a scooter (he has a very unreliable bike) and the second is for petrol to keep it running. After Fiona carries out an interesting variation of the Heimlich manoeuvre on Dom, who gets the top of a tomato ketchup bottle stuck in his throat (you need to watch the film to see why), Dom falls asleep, and wakes up in the morning to find a scooter in the hotel foyer. Later Fiona gives him the key to a petrol storage tank in the nearby refinery. And so a romance is kindled.
Is Fiona a fairy? Well, she certainly conjures up some fairy dust, while at the same time she resorts to very real world solutions, such as stealing a dress (you really need to watch this) and a pair of fancy high heel shoes, after also asking for a pair of trainers that she uses to run away. An instant pregnancy more or less confirms her fairy powers, while at the same time she's confined in what appears to be a hospital for those, who it seems, aren't quite there.
The dialogue is minimal (and not too difficult for my French), the comedy is bonkers, but the result is absolutely charming.
You won't see many films like this, which is more the pity.
The dialogue is minimal (and not too difficult for my French), the comedy is bonkers, but the result is absolutely charming.
You won't see many films like this, which is more the pity.