Faces in the mountain

Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus and 2012

Crit

Michael Cera plays a marginally less assholish character here than in This Is the End, an ugly American narcotourist--well, mescalinotourist--but the cooked contents of the San Pedro cactus and the raw and natural contents of a loopy neohippie who calls herself Crystal Fairy (Gaby Hoffmann) combine to make him more like the sweet Michael Cera character we're familiar with. Not sure whether this is a good film, but it's engagingly weird and unlike any I've ever seen. Sebastián Silva directed those two and his brothers Juan Andrés, José Miguel, and Agustín as their fellow travelers, a trio of innocent nearly angelic brothers.