What if you met a woman who claimed to be a fairy? Would you believe it? What if she offered you 3 wishes and granted the first two of them? How about then?

It probably depends on what time of world you currently inhabit. In the French fantastical farce, “The Fairy,” these types of things happen all the time, and no one bats an eye. A suitcase walks on its own, a man flies, loves perform impromptu dance numbers under the sea. This all part of the unavoidable, unshakable whimsical charm of “The Fariy.”

One night when doing the night shit at a hotel, Dom meets a woman who claims to be a fairy. He seems relatively unfazed by this. Dom just wants to eat his sandwich and watch a movie. The way he takes in all the fantastical events of “The Fairy” with a deadpanned straight face is one of the ways “The Fairy” maintains its innocent and lovely charm.

It would irrelevant to talk too much about the plot of “The Fairy,” because the film plays more like a series of episodes or chases than as one coherent whole. It is a very weird film, filled with visual trickery and lots and lots of physical comedy. To a certain degree, it felt like a Charlie Chaplin film as filtered through French whimsy.

Though it takes a while to get used to the tone and interior rules of “The Fairy,” it builds to a fun and exciting experience. The only problem I really had with “The Fairy” was that the stakes were too low, the film was in too soft of focus, so to speak. Even when our characters were on the run from policy, even when they are falling for an obnoxious amount of time off of a cliff and into the water below, it never felt as though they were in any danger. Everything was always going to be ok because nothing bad ever happens in the fairy world.

3/5