The Fairy Faith

Canadian John Walker has put together a truly wonderful, informative, and entertaining documentary on the seldom seriously considered subject of fairies. While touching upon historical background and context, he emphasizes modern aspects of belief in and experience of fairies. The interviews with witnesses who have actually encountered and physically seen fairies are impressive and convincing; the body of evidence for the existence of fairies presented here must challenge our smugly material view of the world.

I have seen this film several times and enjoy it more with each viewing --- granted enjoyment of it might be conditional upon one's open-mindedness to the idea of fairies. But there is some fine scenery to be enjoyed as the film will takes the viewer to Ireland, Scotland, and parts of England and Canada, and the interviewees are almost all charming people whom it is a pleasure to be acquainted with. If you believe that fairyland is a total crock, you might want to pass this film by, but if not, you will probably like it and perhaps love it as I do.

I caught this movie on IFC, and found it both haunting and kind of sweet. Some of people interviewed might be entirely crazy, but they really believe the stories they tell. Sometimes when I'm walking in the woods I still think of the haunting anecdotes from this film. It think it's a fine documentary, in that it's not exploitative of it's subjects.

The other comments here seem to miss the point. If you wanted to see a documentary that disproves the existence of fairies, you could watch the Penn and Teller television show called "Bullshit".

I particularly like that the film takes us to rural Prince Edward Island and other obscure Canadian wilderness that one might not often see.

This documentary closely follows the realm of fairy set in Europe. Many people are talked to about their belief in the little people and it's affects on them and the community. Shot on location, this film shows some beautiful scenery, and has some great close up looks at some key fairy points in Europe. You get to visit fairy locations and talk to artists who claim to see fairies, like Brain Froud. You also talk to people who claim to have seen or worked with the fairies, and how this has changed their lives, either for the good or the bad. This is a must see for those who would like to sit back and get a true look at fairies.

This is a mediocre film about fairies. While the history and nostalgia about fairies is, perhaps, somewhat interesting, there is never any rational argument used to justify their existence. Basically this is a fluffy representation of fairies whose only proof is a variety of photogenic sceneries and not so photogenic nutbars who are obviously deluding themselves. No reasonable person could honestly watch this and conclude anything but it was barking mad. Just because their are interesting hills and trees does not mean fairies exist. Shame on this filmmaker. Perhaps next time he will interview at least one skeptic or scientist who has an education beyond 3rd grade.

Call me churlish, but if Canadian director John Walker isn't amongst the most credulous filmmakers ever, I don't know who is. Oliver Stone, perhaps. This documentary about big people who believe in invisible little people is actually quite sad, assuming said big people aren't simply looking for publicity. Walker, who admits to believing in 'something' himself, takes everything at face value, and doesn't bother consulting a single rational person in the course of his film. That undoubtedly was his intent, but this is essentially a puff piece for people who live in cloud cuckoo land. At least they all seem like thoroughly nice folk.