While shaggy, boorish young American Jamie is traveling through Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group's quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, the famed San Pedro cactus. But her free-spirited personality quickly clashes with his self-absorption...
Shot on the fly, while Silva, Cera & Co. were waiting to make another movie, Crystal Fairy ends up on a beach, and ends up resonating with a pesky charm.
Low-key, naturalistic and original, Sebastian Silva's study of two Americans finding their way in Chile is an often funny, always compelling journey that rings true.
Jamie and Crystal Fairy, though slightly exaggerated for comic effect, are still truer representations of gringo backpackers than I've ever seen on film.
