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Photographing Fairies (1997)

Photographing Fairies poster
Directed by
Nick Willing
Genre
drama film, fantasy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
R
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 34 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A photographer investigates a claim that two young girls have photographed real fairies. He becomes drawn into a world of belief and doubt, confronting his own grief and skepticism.

mysteriouscontemplativemelancholiccerebralatmosphericslow-burneeriepoignant

What happens

Photographing Fairies is a 1997 British fantasy film based on Steve Szilagyi's 1992 novel Photographing Fairies. The film explores some of the themes of folklore, such as possession, paganism, animism, hallucinogens, parapsychology and fairies. It was inspired by the Cottingley Fairies hoax, and was released in the United Kingdom on 19 September 1997. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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