Movies about Faerie
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"FairyTale: A True Story" Here'syou won't want to miss: "FairyTale: A True Story". You can find it in the videostore under "New Releases"(or in the Kids section.) This is a treatment of the Cottingswold Pictures issue using more than a little artistic license. The little dragonfly-winged piskies are darling, but little-seen in this drawn out vehicle featuring Peter O'Toole as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harvy Keitel as Harry Houdini. I was intrigued by the "Fairies of Cottingswold Glen" merchandise ("Nanny ButtonCap"s, "Habetrot"s and "Queen Mab's lined up on shelves right above the SkyDancer dollsÉ) for months before this anachronistic flick opened. It's definitely an odd movie, and it may very well bore your children --it moves very slowly and there's little interaction between the faeries and the children. How accurate is the movie about the recorded events surrounding the Cottingswold photographs? About as accurate as Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" compared to "Les Cloches de Notre-Dame". How accurate are the portrayals of the Little People? Fair to middlin' -- they match up well enough with descriptions of true-life fairy sightings all over Great Britain, the few, brief glimpses you get of them in this movie. Chock full of not-very-well defined themes, like 'childhood's end', and 'families in the greiving process' -- the movie is too full of these heavy issues to be a cheesy, cheerful kids comedy. Yet it falls far short of actually addressing the question of the existence of fairies, or of questioning the authenticity of the pictures (thanks to a queer little scene involving an unscrupulous journalist, a dead boy's ghost, and some drawings of the fairies. We don't know what to make of that.) We're not really sure why the film was made or who it was made for -- it isn't juvenile entertainment (in the Pook's humble opinion, anyways. What did you think of the opening scene? Didn't you think they were getting ready to hang some guy? That's appropriate for kids?) and someone was clearly knowledgeable of a lot of history and lore when they crafted this screenplay even though certain crucial elements and conditions surrounding this issue are not made clear. Watch it for flavor, not particularly for substance. The turn of the century costumes and sets will put you in a mildly gothic mood. | ||||
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Photographing Fairies This must-read novel was turned into a shockingly good movie which aptly captures the dangerous and intoxicating nature that seems to pervade stories of the real fair folk. As a book, it is a really intense read. Put the reality seat belt on when you sit down to watch the movie. To me it was like a Jacob's Ladder set in the Victorian era. | ||||
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