Synopsis & Film Details
From the directors of L’iceberg, the Belgian comedy The Fairy follows a hotel clerk as he falls in love with an off-kilter, wish-granting fairy. The opening selection at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight, the movie continues to charm audiences with its loopy, Jacques Tati-inspired romp. The clerk works the night shift in a small hotel near the seaport of Le Havre. One night, a woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. She tells the clerk that she is a fairy, and she grants him three wishes. However, before she is able to grant the third wish, the fairy mysteriously disappears. The clerk then sets out on a quest to find her, leading the two on a series of freewheeling misadventures. In French, with English subtitles.
In the drama Lone-Illness, loneliness is a feeling and a state of mind – with many questions and few answers. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
Screening sponsor: L’Alliance Française de Fresno.