Crystal Fairy & the magical cactus: Film review En route, the pilgrims pick up a wild and eccentric American woman who calls herself Crystal Fairy (Gaby Hoffmann) and who behaves like a New Age priestess. She eats only vegetables (although we spot her furtively swigging from a bottle of coke when her fellow travellers aren't watching) and is a keen naturist. Jamie quickly nicknames her "hairy fairy." There are some funny moments along the way, not least when Jamie finally takes the hallucinogen. The film-makers' freewheeling approach (the heavy use of handheld camera, the seemingly improvised dialogue) sometimes grates, but the lyricism and humour here just about atone for the navel-gazing self-indulgence.