Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

Crystal Fairy amp The Magical Cactus Crystal Fairy amp The Magical Cactus and 2012 as presented onscreen is a 2013 Chilean adventure comedy film written and directed by Sebastin Silva. The film stars Michael Cera and Gaby Hoffmann.

Jamie, a footloose and selfabsorbed young American, is traveling in Chile and is keen to experience the mysteries of a local hallucinogen the mescalinebearing San Pedro cactus. In a moment of indiscretion, he invites another young American, the eccentric Crystal Fairy, to join him and his three Chilean companions, brothers who with varying degrees of enthusiasm also seek the magical herb. To the dismay of all four men, the New Ageaddled young woman now dubbed Crystal Hairy joins them on their road trip, and soon everyones patience is stretched thin. The desired plant is acquired through a hasty theft and the heartfelt experiences that they all undergo under its psychotropic influence on a remote desert beach bring them closer together. By the end they are all more sympathetic and tolerant of their individual personality differences.Michael Cera was in Chile learning Spanish for Magic Magic and had been living with the Silva boys for months when Gaby Hoffmann arrived. Sebastin Silva had given her a brief character description during a phone call about a week before she left for Chile. Hoffmann says, And all he did was say, Go buy some books about 2012 and get on the plane. The actors spent a week in Santiago in preproduction living together at Silvas parents housewhere he had shot The Maid in 2009. The boys would sit out back playing guitar and singing songs. Hoffmann recalls hearing the music streaming through the open doors while Sebastin and Hoffmann would sit at a desk where she created all Crystal Fairys drawings in the sketchbook she has in the film. ........

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