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Photographing Fairies?

All Acting Regiment

11:15 / 21.11.05

I'm sure I've seen this film somewhere...but no. I'm not sure. Does it even exist?

Jack Fear

11:19 / 21.11.05

You know, there's this thing called the Internet out there. Puts all of human knowledge at your fingertips. It's great. You should really try it some time.

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11:22 / 21.11.05

Or it could be this one.

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:45 / 21.11.05

Correction: The Internet, alas, contains nothing like the sume of human knowledge. However, it is very good at providing information on things when you have the exact name and an idea of what it was (or wasn't).

The application subsequenlty of a bit of ratiocination can usually do a lot of the subsequent legwork. Legba's title, "Photographing Fairies", was mirrored precisely by the title fo the film my esteemed colleague Mr. Fear presented, therefore Legba was probably thinking of this film, especially in light of its Britishness and its comparatively greater familiarity.

Mind you, Anna Chancellor as Peter Pan is making me feel a bit funny, conceptually speaking.

Squirmelia

12:15 / 21.11.05

Photographing Fairies was on UK terrestrial BBC2 at 11.40pm on Sunday October 16th 2005. Maybe you watched it then?

12:58 / 21.11.05

I've seen a film called Photographing Fairies. It was billed as 'the Edwardian X Files' when it came out - without too many spoilers, the hero has tragic honeymoon in the alps, fights in the trenches, starts business forging family photographs after the Great War. A somewhat foxy lady then recruits him to analyse a photograph of her child conversing with a fairy, at which point action moves to the Sinister English Countryside. Striking images include the hero in his workplace surrounded by giant blown up photos of a child's eye. There was some overuse of slowmo.

Is this the one? If so, it's the first IMDB listing in the thread.

All Acting Regiment

15:07 / 21.11.05

Ahh, Fear's suugestion was the right one. Cheers fear.

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20:24 / 21.11.05

Thought it might be but was surprised that someone would bother asking without checking IMDB. Therefore, I assumed the obvious one couldn't be the right one, so went digging. Mmmm... Pan.

the virgin queen

14:31 / 25.11.05

Hi,

New user (about to post n introduction) but I couldn't avoid this thread.

I don't remember Photographing Faries being billed as 'a victorian x-files' but that's nothing like the movie. It's a verry moving study of loss and the need to beleve.

Lovely, lovely film.

the virgin queen

14:36 / 25.11.05

here's the IMDB listing for the movie...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119893/

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