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Ondine. (film) Ondine is a 2009 Irish romantic drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda. The film was shot on location in Castletownbere, and it touches upon the possible existence of the mythological selkie bringing hope and love to humanity. The film had its North American premiere as part ...
Ondine: Directed by Neil Jordan. With Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Dervla Kirwan, Alison Barry. An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net whom his precocious daughter believes to be a selkie.
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- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Neil Jordan
- 2010-03-05
Light-Haired Swimmer: Ondine has blonde hair and even though she's not really a selkie she's still a good swimmer. Lingerie Scene: Ondine gets quite a few of them as she tries on various underwear at a store or is shown changing later. Magic Realism: Subverted, as at first it seems like Ondine is a selkie in the otherwise normal modern Irish ...
ONDINE is a lyrical modern fairy tale that tells the story of Syracuse (Colin Farrell), an Irish fisherman whose life is transformed when he catches a beautiful and mysterious woman (Alicja Bachleda) in his nets. She says her name is Ondine, which means "she came from the sea." His daughter Annie (Alison Barry) comes to believe that the woman ...
Jun 3, 2010 · June 3, 2010 12:00 AM EDT. L ike John Sayles’ The Secret of Roan Inish, Neil Jordan’s intoxicatingly beautiful Ondine plays off the marvelous folklore of the selkie, a seal who sheds his or ...
Parents say Not yet rated Rate movie. Kids say (2 ): This is a puzzling, interesting though ultimately unsatisfying film by Neil Jordan. "Misery is easy; happiness, you have to work at," says the priest who ministers to Farrell's Syracuse; that's the essential truth that ONDINE, a fable-like drama, attempts to uncork.
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On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she is a selkie, a seal that turns human ...
