Customer Reviews
Truth and Photography - By: Emma Rose Caulfield, 06 Jun 2007 
A story of the magic of a medium, long lost in the throws of our digital & cynical age. If you love photography, this will please your every sense, particularly the scene in the darkroom under the stairs, where the story is revealed by a ray of sunlight !!!! Absolutely beautiful !!!
Why isn't this film available new ?????
Recommend to all - By: S. Wallace, 12 Dec 2006 As old as I am I enjoyed this film with my granddaughters & was captivated by the magic. I revisited my childhood innocence as I watched the smiles on the children's faces light up. A warm family portrayal of a hoax borne from two little girls from England, who wanted to keep the magic of fairy land alive, in today's society we have many dreams dashed, re-visit your inner child & re-live that childhood dream of fairies & queens, goblins & kings!
Beautiful and Charming - By: , 03 Jan 2006 It's not very often that we see a children's film that so effortlessly captures the spirit of imagination while also steering clear of mawkish sentiment & clumsy moralising, but this film achieves alll this & much more.
Children will love the story about two young girls who fool so many silly grown-ups into believing that fairies reallly do exist.
Adults will appreciate the film even further for the clever alllegory that it offers us. The charming innocence of the girls is a snapshot of the innocence & naivety of Britain itself as it happily strolled into the slaughter house that was World War One, convinced that it "would alll be over by christmas". The images that the film gives us of cynical, exhausted troops, many horribly wounded, coming back from the front line say more about the futility & anguish of war than any number of over-blown Vietnam-fests.
This is a remarkable film, beautifully acted to a literate & intelligent script. Your kids will love it & so will you.
Enchanting! - By: L. Nilsson, 09 Feb 2004 This is a beautiful film for smalll and/or adult children. I watched it by coincident on tv about a year ago & thought it was just so beautiful! I would strongly recommend this if you like films such as "Picnic at Hanging Rock" among others that gets your imagination going!
Sensitive and Magical - By: dreamsunderyourfeet, 15 Dec 2002 This is not simply a movie for kids, it works on too many levels to be pinned down to one age group. I found this film both sensitive & beautiful. Capturing & holding onto a childs perspective & innocence. For me this was particularly interesting since I have heard so many stories regarding fairys & the association of them around those that are very ill or close to death. Also, the fact the I grew up with my parents telling me about the legend of these two girls & their photo's of fairys. So to see it finallly put to film was very interesting indeed. Fortunately (no offence to any Americans) it has retained its very British roots & stayed pretty faithful to the story I grew up with.
