After Aki Kaurismäki's colourful fairytale Le Havre, here's another pastel-hued fancy set in the same port town and also featuring African refugees, this one from the physical theatre stylings of Belgium-based mime artists and dancers Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon. He works the night desk in a grubby hotel; she turns up and says she's a fairy and will grant him three wishes. The best that can be said for The Fairy is that it certainly creates its own world. However, it's one I wanted to get out of almost as soon as it began.

Jason Solomons

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