Photographing Fairies
by Nick Willing
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Actor: Ben Kingsley, Emily Woof, Frances Barber, Philip Davis, Toby StephensDirector: Nick Willing
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 107 minutes
Release Date: 1999-05-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Polygram USA Video
Studio: Polygram USA Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Photographing Fairies
Movie Review: Crisis Of Faith In Fairyland ~ Guarding The Border Between This World And The Next
Summary: 5 Stars
Introduction: `Photographing Fairies' is an obscure British film from '98 that to my knowledge was never released to American theaters. It was available in limited quantities on VHS but has yet to appear on a REGION 1 DVD.
This probably shouldn't be too surprising when you look at the subject matter of the film. Unlike the Emerald Isles who have an ancient and ongoing oral and written tradition concerning the "wee folk", American audiences are vastly untutored in the topic of the intangible realm of the "Secret Commonweath" and its myriad of inhabitants. Tales of fairies, elves, undines and fauns are not something that would normally dwell in the psyche of U.S. natives. For this reason more than any other 'Photographing Fairies' remains all but unknown on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Synopsis: Set in the early years of the 20th century (1917) widower Charles Castle (Toby Stephens) has finally come to the ultimate moment of truth in his search to discover tangible proof for the existence of the soul and life after death. Is the passage to the world beyond found within the pungent buds of a very special flower? And if so what is the role to be played by the winged guardians of these flowers and the tree upon which they grow? Are they truly connected to the realm of the dead? Mr. Castle seems to think so.
Critique: `Photographing Fairies' delivers a beguiling, at times hallucinogenic vision of the rich and textured borderland between the physical, the psychic and what lies beyond. The production values are superior, the storyline well-conceived and layered with various levels of meaning and the visuals are absolutely haunting. Without a doubt this is one of my favorite films! So far it's only been available on a now OOP VHS tape and this REGION 2, Full Screen version DVD. Where's the REGION 1 RELEASE?
Summary of Photographing Fairies
The true story of two English children who claimed they photographed fairies in 1917 produced two different movies in the late 1990s. Not as well-known as the earnest family drama FairyTale: A True Story, the English-made Photographing Fairies takes a much more adult angle on the incident. The film follows not the children, but Charles Castle (Toby Stephens), a young photographer who loses his beloved wife on their honeymoon. A shell of a man through World War?I, Castle rediscovers faith when he is convinced the fairy photographs have not been faked (in a superb sequence reminiscent of Blowup). Castle makes a pilgrimage to the site where he discovers--in another vast departure from the other movie--narcotic flowers and erotic fairies that dazzle his sprit. Ben Kingsley costars as the down-to-earth preacher set to make his town right again. This first film by Nick Willing (TV's Alice in Wonderland) is a rare undiscovered gem, trippy and elegant, that deserved a release in the U.S. --Doug ThomasMilitary & War VHS Video
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