Although less technically polished than "The Artist" and splashed with bright color, "The Fairy" shares some of that film's qualities, for good (funny and sweet) and bad (sentimental and ingratiating).
And he brings something unexpected to the pickin' party: angst, which in these songs often happens to revolve around the dangerous lure of available women: "Too hot, too sweet, too bad, too late".
But here, the candidate in question, Michel Martelly, whose Sweet Micky bad boy persona landed him at the top of the music charts, has a chance at ending up in the presidential palace, tasked with leading the country out of the ruin of the 2010 earthquake, the cholera epidemic and the political turmoil that nearly left him off the ballot.
Is the stuff that makes soda sweet as bad for you as the nicotine in a cigarette?
For years, I kept this secret: because everyone knows that good girls eat up their savouries before their sweets; and bad girls... bad girls rot in hell, like my egg sandwich doubtless did.
The NHS tells us that sugary sweets are bad for us, but Jacqueline Mars Marss heiress, $23.4bn) and Maria Franca Fissolo Ferreroo heiress, $22.1bn) may disagree (Forbes reveals fall of £50bn in wealth of world's top 20, 3 March).
He promises that North Korea's treaty-breaking will have consequences, but so far these have consisted mostly of ineffectual scolding.The conservative critique of Mr Obama is that he is Jimmy Carter redux: a woolly idealist who thinks he can sweet-talk bad guys into behaving.
Soon she meets Laurent (Robinson Stévenin, a sweet-faced bad boy who gives her her first dance, her first kiss and becomes the object of an all-consuming passion that teaches her that love makes us capable of anything, or -- as the film's tag line reads -- "On peut tout faire par amour".
And on the subject of witches, there is the Italian Befana -- a witch who leaps from roof to roof, leaving good children candies and sweets, and bad children rocks or stones or lumps of coal.
This will leave you with half a half-bottle of chilled sweet wine: no bad thing.
