At the time of release and now this film is tragically undervalued. The reviews were merely making fun of the rather unconvincing fairies rather than looking at the film as a whole. In fact I was not tempted to see it at all but ended up watching it while doing work experience as an usherette in a local cinema.
The fairies are not the latest in technology but it is a small yet intensely beautiful and haunting film that I suspect could only be made outside of Hollywood. It is a film about grief, faith and mysticism. The lead character is a man who puts pictures of dead soldiers (from WW1) into family pictures who is haunted by the loss of his wife. He is confronted by a woman who has a picture of fairies which with all his expertise he can not disprove so he goes back with her to investigate. What follows is a tale of obsession, magic, faith, violence and loss.
The acting is superb and intense (Ben Kingsley plays a wonderfully malevolent vicar). There are scenes which are purely cinematic, especially those of the dead wife dancing and her fall in to the snow.
I would recommend this film to anyone who wants a little more out of a film. The imagery and the feelings behind it will last in your memory for a long time.
The fairies are not the latest in technology but it is a small yet intensely beautiful and haunting film that I suspect could only be made outside of Hollywood. It is a film about grief, faith and mysticism. The lead character is a man who puts pictures of dead soldiers (from WW1) into family pictures who is haunted by the loss of his wife. He is confronted by a woman who has a picture of fairies which with all his expertise he can not disprove so he goes back with her to investigate. What follows is a tale of obsession, magic, faith, violence and loss.
The acting is superb and intense (Ben Kingsley plays a wonderfully malevolent vicar). There are scenes which are purely cinematic, especially those of the dead wife dancing and her fall in to the snow.
I would recommend this film to anyone who wants a little more out of a film. The imagery and the feelings behind it will last in your memory for a long time.