Dreadfully Boring

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Plot: Set in the early 1900's a story about a man who loses his newly married wife in a tragic accident discovers through photography that there is a world beyond this one where. A woman whose children took pictures of fairy like creatures, comes to him seeking proof that they are real. Although he is a skeptic at first, through the use of a hallucinogenic flower the children have, he discovers this other world, and longs for it to reunite him with his dead wife. Comments: Great acting by Toby Stephens in my opinion he deserves an academy award for best actor for his role in this. He leads you through this lovely story and makes you believe there is another world beyond where we exist. He had a great supporting cast Emily Woof, the beautiful Rachel Shelly, Ben Kingsley the little girls.. all played their roles superbly.I loved this story-line, I realize it was a remake of an older version of this story, but so much better done with modern screen technology. Its use of the flower to transform the states of consciousness, bring the fairies alive, making you believe in the hereafter. It had an endearing love story of a man obsessed with the wife he lost embedded in this mystery of the fairies. It has a great script adaptation and directing too. I don't know why I had to find this film years later in Netflix category I probably would not look at for a film like this, with such a bad description that I almost didn't watch it. Yet this film is so much better than most movies I see today. It has a good story line, mysterious and intriguing, great acting, what can I say but do watch it if you haven't seen it you will be pleasantly surprised.

If you enjoyed the Harvey Keitel/Mel Gibson film "Fairy Tale: A True Story" but yearn for something more in the vein of dark fantasy... try this out. From beginning to end, it is literally and figuratively one continuous acid trip... splendidly gorgeous, horrifyingly scary and tragic, yet lovely and archaic as well. And, yes, there are real fairies in this movie... The CGI is wholly believable, and rendered in a gossamer murkiness that makes them even more believable. My only problem with this movie is that it's not available in the United States or anywhere else in a DVD format I can play. I had to buy a Spanish version just to have it, in the hopes that one day I'll have a DVD player that'll play it!

Beethoven's 7th symphony is just so perfect for this movie. One might say good music compliments good movie. It's my personal opinion but I believe good movie compliments good classical music. I have listened to Beethoven's 7th symphony many times. I haven't had the appreciation for the 7th symphony until I saw this movie. From now on whenever I listen to this music I will picture the last scene of this movie, so mesmerizing...Movies like this helps none classical music audience learn to appreciate classical music. I am just waiting to see if there is a movie that will help me understand rap. lol

This film was inspired by the famous "Cottingley Fairy" photographs, where, in 1917, two girls produced pictures which they claimed showed fairies at the bottom of their garden. In this film, a cynical photographer, still grieving over the death of his wife, becomes obsessed by some photographs which he believes show genuine fairies.The films well made, but it is very slow-moving. The atmosphere is very somber, in fact the whole thing is surprisingly bleak.This had the misfortune to be released around the same time as "Fairy Tale: A True Story", which was also based on the Cottingley photographs, and was far more successful. .