The fairy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The fairy |
| Original title | La fée |
| Country of production |
France Belgium |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Dominique Abel Fiona Gordon Bruno Romy |
| script | Dominique Abel Fiona Gordon Bruno Romy |
| production |
Elise Bisson Marina Festré Charles Gillibert Marin Karmitz Nathanaël Karmitz Valérie Rouy |
| camera | Claire Childeric |
| cut | Sandrine Deegen |
| occupation | |
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The Fairy is a Franco-Belgian comedy film directed by Dominique Abel , Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy from 2011.
action
Dom works as a night porter in a small hotel by the sea in Le Havre . One evening he was just preparing a sandwich, with the ketchup bottle's lid under the ketchup mixture, when the first Englishman John checked into the hotel and smuggled his dog Mimi into the room, and shortly afterwards his wife Fiona. She tells Dom that she is a fairy and that he has three wishes. After saving the life of Dom, who was almost suffocated by the ketchup lid, he wants a scooter because his bike keeps breaking, and gasoline for life. He can't think of a third wish and Fiona says he should take his time. The next morning, Dom finds a scooter in the hotel as well as a message from Fiona, with whom she arranges to meet him in the café for a blurry love Fiona steals a dress and shoes for the meeting. In the café, both of them spend a quiet but pleasant time in the presence of the extremely short-sighted café owner. After all, both of them go to the sea in the evening, take off their clothes and seem to swim to the seabed, where they dance together. At night the cathedral wakes up on the beach. Fiona has disappeared.
Fiona calls the hotel and asks for help. She is not doing well and has been caught. Shortly afterwards a man comes flying to Dom, who was sent by Fiona, but no longer knows what she told him to do. Fiona finally succeeds in drawing attention to herself by mirror reflection. She is very pregnant in a hospital populated by numerous mentally ill people. Dom manages to smuggle Fiona out of the hospital. Shortly afterwards, on the roof terrace of the hotel, she gives birth to a boy whom they both call Jimmy. Dom still doesn't have a third wish.
Mimi, the Englishman's dog, has disappeared and he offers a reward for finding it. Three illegals find the dog, but Paul cannot pay the finder's fee. So he negotiates with the illegals to take them to England in his car. Since the quartet runs out of gas after a few meters, Fiona takes them to a gasoline storage facility that she had already tapped for Dom's scooter. When filling canisters with petrol, everyone is surprised and followed by the police. Dom and Fiona manage to escape to the café to the blurred love and to borrow the caravan from the owner. This stands on dangerous terrain and Dom and Fiona actually fall down a slope with Jimmy. Shortly afterwards, both are arrested by the police. Fiona goes to psychiatry again while Dom is sent to Le Havre prison. After a while, Dom is released and meets Fiona again, who is running away from the hospital staff and the police with a stroller and Jimmy. He joins her and they both disappear in the distance. When she asked if he had a third wish, he said no, and Fiona replied that he should take his time.
production
The fairy was filmed in Le Havre ; You can see the town hall there, the Saint-Joseph church and the port. Other locations included Sainte-Adresse and Saint-Jouin-Bruneval . Claire Dubien created the costumes and Nicolas Girault designed the film . The film's recurring song is What a Difference a Day Made , interpreted by Dinah Washington .
The fairy premiered on May 12, 2011 at the Cannes International Film Festival as part of the Quinzaine des réalisateurs series. The film opened in French cinemas on September 14, 2011, where around 31,000 viewers saw it. In Germany the film was released on September 6, 2012 and was released on DVD in January 2013.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dom | Dominique Abel | Matthias Deutelmoser |
| Fiona | Fiona Gordon | Ilka Teichmüller |
criticism
The film service called Die Fee a “surreal-romantic comedy that is reminiscent of early cinema and works with burlesque humor. The slow narrative pace torpedoes the timing of some gags, but overall the film unfolds an idiosyncratic nostalgic charm. " Cinema described the film as a" clownish farce with surreal humor and slapstick-like absurdity ", reminiscent of the works of Aki Kaurismäki and the Monty Pythons .
Der Spiegel called the film a “fairy tale with candy-colored magic” and found that Gordon's and Abel's “dancing slapstick and charming madness [...] are reminiscent of Buster Keaton's silent filmsand the childlike humor of Jacques Tati ”.
Awards
The fairy won the 2011 Hamptons International Film Festival's Golden Starfish Award for Best Fiction. In the same year he received a nomination for a bronze horse at the Stockholm Film Festival .
The film was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best International Film in 2013 by the US Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films .
Web links
- The fairy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bettina Henzler: The Baby in Slapstick , published on December 14, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Box Office on allocine.fr
- ↑ The fairy. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The fairy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ The fairy . In: Der Spiegel - KulturSpiegel . No. 3, 2012, p. 46.