As with L’Iceberg and Rumba—the first two feature-length comedies by mime artists Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon and their collaborator Bruno Romy—The Fairy is whimsical to a fault, sacrificing character and plot for the sake of elaborate visual gags that are impressively constructed, but rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Gordon plays a shoeless waif who shows up at a hotel in the French port city of Le Havre and tells distracted desk clerk Abel that she’s a fairy who can grant him three wishes. Soon they’re sharing a romantic evening on the beach, after which she disappears, sending him on a quest to find her—which he eventually does, in a mental institution. Is Gordon magic? Is she crazy? And after Abel’s asked her for a scooter and for unlimited gas, what third wish could he possibly want? Simultaneously dreamy and weird, The Fairy only has a little to do with the real world, which bleeds in largely via a subplot about African immigrants trying to sneak across the English Channel. For the most part, it’s too dry and quirky to connect.