Movie: The Fairy
Release Date: February 24, 2012 (NY)
Studio: Kino Lorber
Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Screenwriter: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Starring: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Genre: Comedy
Official Website: Not Available
IMDB Rating: 6.7
Story: Masters of burlesque Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon have a reputation for entertaining audiences worldwide. With their new comedy released next week, the artists say the best way to help a clown be funny is “not to tell him what to do”.
“The challenge is to make people laugh. And make a message of humanity, but not with a hammer and a nail,” Fiona Gordon explains.
The Belgian-Canadian duo came together two decades ago. Now their latest comedy The Fairy is about to hit on screens in America and will be released on DVD in Russia.
With fans as far afield as Japan to Belgium to Brazil, how do they know that something is funny?
“That’s always the biggest problem,” Fiona replies. “We don’t!” We never know until the first audience sees the film,” the actress told RT.
“The first rule is that it has to make us laugh,” her partner Dominique adds. “We use a lot of improvisation in the process of creating. We spend a few months finding a simple story – touching but simple – and then we try it out. That’s where it can flourish, or it can be very bad and deceiving,” Abel explains
Body language, the clown actors reveal, is vital for them. Does the body never lie, though?
“Well, it does lie, but that’s what is interesting,” Fiona agrees. “Different actions can contradict what the person is trying to communicate and make you understand that it’s not exactly what the person is thinking. You can also exaggerate and say more than what’s meant, because we have little control of what our bodies say, much less control than we do of what we say. When you speak you reflect on what you’re going to say, and we are not used to doing it with the rest of our bodies. So it’s great that way because we make accidents, and we like accidents!”
The first lesson Charlie Chaplin gave his daughter, Geraldine, was when he told her to be ready to get rejected. Did Abel and Gordon decide to make movies all by themselves, directing, writing and acting in them in order not to be rejected by fellow filmmakers?
“We knew we had to do it ourselves because the kinds of films that we like are done that way and we like to be the clowns-authors, the clown cinematographers. We don’t want to be comics playing in comedies,” Abel replied.
“When you play, you need to have this sort of crocodile skin with regards to criticism. You need to be confident as a performer,” Fiona added.
Although the duo likes to play with the awkwardness of people, they say they are not attracted by the art of parody. “We don’t want to make fun of the other. We prefer to work with our own imperfection,” the Belgian comic, Abel pointed out.
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