ShockYa: This movie was one of the first screened for press members at the Sundance Film Festival, but it’s probably fair to say that it may be the strangest entry of the year. Director Sebastián Silva, whose last film, The Maid, took home a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance several years ago, has created a film so truly bizarre from its opening moments that it’s hard to imagine just where it will end up. As promised by the stylized, decorative opening credits sequence, Crystal Fairy is a wild ride that can best be described as a Chilean road trip stoner movie starring none other than authentic awkward American Michael Cera.
If the blockbuster season this year was contentious and divisive, the indie circuit was a treasture trove of bedeazzling content. Check to see what you may have missed or what you know you'll see again.
Independent Cinema writes: In a trend that seems to have stemmed from the rumors years ago that Michael Cera was the one preventing season 4 of Arrested Development from happening, every film seems to want to make Michael Cera into an unlovable douche. This year’s This is the End (Review here) turned him into a cocaine-addicted womanizer, and in the latest season of Arrested Development, George Michael is kind of a jerk. Sebastian Silva’s latest comedy sheds the womanizing aspect of This is the End‘s Cera, and keeps the drug addiction as a means of explaining his insensitive ways. What happens is that Crystal Fairy becomes an endurance test of how much longer Jamie (Cera) can be an ass before things catch up to him. The movie meanders, harps a little too much on Jamie’s insensitivity, and has quirk that honestly does not feel like it belongs in this film.
