Jeff Connell How can anyone watch this and not be struck dumb.The music is so haunting that it will reverberate in your head and soul for days after.How fantastic not have to endure "shoot em up" themes but to let fantasy run its course leaving you disturbed but in a wonderful way.This film is on a par with "Out of Africa" as my "dumbstuck" movies.The film ends but you can't move, your senses are so overwhelmed that you will be unable to regain reality for some time.This is a film for those who enjoy wonderful music and appreciate a plot that stirs emotions, imagination and the intellect.

Monica4937 I was up late one night and this was playing on the Sci-fi channel. I happen to have a fascination with fairies so I figured this would be an interesting film. Indeed I was right The first film I saw pertaining to the story of two young girls photographing fairies was FairyTale: A True Story which was cute but I constantly found myself yawning and wondering when it would end. Photographing Fairies is also about the two girls capturing a fairy in a photograph, but instead of focusing on them the story really revolves around Charles Castle. Toby Stephens (whom most of us know from Die Another Day) plays Castle, a tormented photographer that refuses to do weddings because of a loss he suffered after only one day of being married. He sets out to find the truth, if fairies really do exist, and along the way he ends up discovering a world so precious and sacred that he'd do anything to keep it safe from harm. 8/10

d_sakaki If you have cable and the SciFi Channel, you may have had thepleasure of catching this little gem. I kept seeing it in parts andeven in the little snippets, it drew me in and had such a hauntingquality. It was on the other night and I just sat and watched it all theway through and despite the fact that I'd seen some scenesbefore, it still held such a wonderful presence. It's hard to reallydescribe the movie -- part love story, part fantasy, with a little bit ofthe Big Question over exactly what the afterlife is. Thecinematography is absolutely picturesque, almost like watching aMerchant Ivory production, but with a bit of fairy magic thrown in.Ben Kingsley is an interesting addition to the cast. I wish therewas more characterization done on all the main roles. You get asense of where everyone comes from in terms of motivation, butmore background would have made for a richer film. The pace issometimes inconsistent, moving quickly in the beginning, thenslowing, then speeding up again. But the film's dry English witmakes for enjoyable moments of irreverence. It's still just anoverall beautiful film. Very bittersweet and heartbreaking inmoments. The end is shot with such care and emotion. Asfantastic as the premise is, the heart of the movie is somethingeveryone can understand -- the loss of a loved one and the chanceto rekindle a spirit burdened with sorrow. A funny bit of irony -- theactor who played Watson in the BBC Sherlock Holmes series is inthis movie and he plays (har har har) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

merrywood The simple, understated title of this film disguises the imposing grandeur of this superb dramatic production. Leave it to a British production company to bring to film an extraordinary story of the occult at a mature, intelligent level and in a spellbinding scenario tell the truth about the nature of spiritual reality…all that there really is. One is left at a loss of words to describe this triumph of filmmaking in comprehensible English language.Set in the waning years of the Victorian era and the end of the Gilded Age, the story is compelling and engrossing. It is meticulously rendered into film with fine production values, flawlessly written, cast and directed. Those not schooled in quantum physics or studied in extradimensional existence theory or metaphysics will more than likely be lost and left groping for answers but for those that are, here is a feast of poetic truth and the fullness of the verity of life.