Photographing Fairies

1997

Drama / Fantasy / Mystery

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 82% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 2979 3K

based on novel or book photographer loss of loved one fairy grieving widower 1920s

Plot summary

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets

Director

Nick Willing Photo
Nick Willing

Top cast

Ben Kingsley Photo
Ben Kingsley as Reverend Templeton
Toby Stephens Photo
Toby Stephens as Charles Castle
Phil Davis Photo
Phil Davis as Roy
Emily Woof Photo
Emily Woof as Linda
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978.94 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
25 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 5
1.96 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles
25 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by sutcal 7 / 10

A thinking man's fairy movie

Occasionaly I am pleasantly suprised by the quality of a movie that I had never heard of prior to watching it. Photographing Fairies (or Apparition as it was tagged by our local Pay TV provider) is on such movie.Toby Stephens plays Charles Castle (Stephens to me has some strikingly similar traits to Hugh Grant), who tragically lost his wife on the Swiss Alps. The movie chronicles his struggles to come to grips with her death and how the possibility of an afterlife (I don't wish to give the story away)makes him obsessed to prove that there is such an afterlife.I was impressed by Stephens in this movie and am sure that bigger things will come his way. I was also impressed with Emily Woof who plays the romantic (if that can be said) support to Stephens. Woof was very good in the Woodlanders and continues her fine form here.Ben Kingsley is also commanding in the movie and his counternance to Stephens desire to prove the existence of the fairies is the keystone of the movie's conclusion.I tend to like movies that have story lines that I have not come across before. This is one such movie. The pleasing aspect is that the acting supports the plot which leads to a pleasant viewing experience.This movie gets my thumbs up 7/10
Reviewed by Monica4937 8 / 10

I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!

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
Reviewed by Freddie-6 8 / 10

Strange but compelling

I really enjoyed this movie, although for a while I was unsure as to whether it was meant to be a drama, science fiction, or comedy.I think I understood the surprise ending. The acting, locations and period dress where all excellent as you would expect from the British who really know how to make such movies. I gave it 8/10.
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