2013 · comedy · adventure · drama
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
Directed by Sebastián Silva1h 39m2013
Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking a road trip north to experience a legendary shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro cactus. In a fit of drunkenness at a wild party, Jamie invites an eccentric woman—a radical spirit named Crystal Fairy—to come along.
Our read: Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive comedy · adventure · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- gentle
- intimate
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